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Potential Efficacy of Salvia rosmarinus Extracts as Anticancer, Anti-inflammatory and Antioxidant Characters

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Last updated: 09 Mar 2025

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Biochemistry

Abstract

Salvia rosmarinus, which belongs to the Lamiaceae family, is recognized for its extract antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer properties. The present work was focused on the anticancer and genotoxicity against prostate cancer (PC3), therefore, it was designed to evaluate plant characters considered as risk factors for cancer including antioxidant and inflammation properties by many procedures to assure the efficacy of plant crude extract and its fractions. The crude aqueous ethanolic extract and its fractions were analyzed for their phytochemical investigations using HPLC, GC/FID, and GC/MS. The biological evaluation was preceded on crude ethanolic extract as well as its petroleum ether and chloroform fractions. The fractions exhibited promising anti-proliferative (by MTT technique) and genotoxic effects (by Comet technique) on PC3, whereas chloroform and ethyl acetate (EtOAc) fractions showed strong inhibitory effects for cyclooxygenase-2 activity and produced superior antioxidant characters. The crude extract could be considered a rich phenolic source; hence, it contains rosmarinic acid, quercetin, and kaempferol. Fatty acid analysis (by GC) of petroleum ether fraction showed high unsaturated fatty acids, and the major fatty acid was linolenic acid. Omega fatty acids (Ѡ,3:6:9) were detected at a high rate, and the essential oil analysis showed that S. rosmarinus could be considered a Bornanone chemotype, monoterpenes, and the major compounds are oxygenated monoterpenes. Therefore, Salvia rosmarinus extracts can be used for many purposes, such as in the food industry, the therapeutic sector, and the cosmetic industry.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2024.284714.9628

Keywords

Salvia Rosmarinus, antioxidant, Anti-inflammatory, Human prostate cancer cell line (PC3), Comet assay, essential oil, Phenolics

Authors

First Name

Amr

Last Name

Aboelhamd

MiddleName

Mohammed

Affiliation

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research Depatment, Pharmaceutical and drug Industries Research Institute, National Research Centre, Dokki, Egypt

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amraboelhamad@yahoo.com

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Orcid

0009-0003-5666-2660

First Name

Kawthar

Last Name

Diab

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Genetics and Cytology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Centre, 12622, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Email

kawthar_diab@yahoo.com

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First Name

Abeer

Last Name

Ibrahim

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-

Affiliation

Department of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research, Pharmaceutical and Drug Industries Division, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

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abeeryibrahim@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Osama

Last Name

Konsowa

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Biochemistry Dept. Faculty of Agricultural, Cairo university

Email

nadaosa@yahoo.com

City

Giza

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Aboul-Enein

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt

Email

aboul.enein1@gmail.com

City

Giza-Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-3350-3451

Volume

68

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

53249

Issue Date

2025-01-01

Receive Date

2024-04-23

Publish Date

2025-01-01

Page Start

439

Page End

455

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_354497.html

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354,497

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Original Article

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Potential Efficacy of Salvia rosmarinus Extracts as Anticancer, Anti-inflammatory and Antioxidant Characters

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Created At

01 Feb 2025