By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators publish new report on Drugs and Therapies - Cancer Therapy. According to news reporting originating in Tamil Nadu, India, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “There is an increasing commercial demand for various nanoparticles due to their extensive applicability in various areas such as electronics, catalysis, chemistry, energy and medicine. Metallic nanoparticles are traditionally synthesized by wet chemical techniques, where the chemicals used are quite often toxic and flammable.”
The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the Department of Biotechnology, “Fig has been a typical fruit component of the health-promoting Mediterranean diet for a very long time. In the present study, we describe a cost effective and eco-friendly technique for green synthesis of silver nanoparticles from 1 mM AgNO3 solution through the extract of dried fig (Ficus carica L) fruit as reducing as well as capping agent. Nanoparticles were characterized using UV absorption spectroscopy and SEM. The sizes of the spherical silver particles were found to be in the range of 54 -89 nm.”
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The biologically synthesized nanoparticles also exhibited a significant cytotoxic effect on MCF7cell lines and further animal acute toxicity results state that the above AgNPs are toxicologically safe by oral administration.”
For more information on this research see: Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using dried fruit extract of Ficus carica - Screening for its anticancer activity and toxicity in animal models. Food and Chemical Toxicology , 2017;109():951-956. Food and Chemical Toxicology can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Food and Chemical Toxicology - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/food-and-chemical-toxicology/)
Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting S.J.P. Jacob, St Josephs Coll Engn, Dept. of Biotechnol, Madras 600119, Tamil Nadu, India. Additional authors for this research include V.L.S. Prasad, S. Sivasankar and P. Muralidharan.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2017.03.066. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2017-12-30), Studies from Department of Biotechnology Describe New Findings in Cancer Therapy (Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using dried fruit extract of Ficus carica - Screening for its anticancer activity and toxicity in animal models), Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week, 1546, ISSN: 1532-4664, BUTTER® ID: 014889379
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