Abstract
The cytotoxic effects of spices containing pure curry on animals with cancer cells was tested in vivo by inducing cancer experimentally by transplanting sarcoma - 180 cancer cells into Isolated Barrier Room System (IBRS) #202 mice. The consumption of a normal diet supplemented with 5% pure curry prolonged the survival period of cancer-cell-transplanted mice by 20.97% (0.01) relative to mice that consumed a normal diet without pure curry. The liver was significantly heavier in the curry groups with or without tumor cell transplantation than in the group consuming a normal diet; the kidney was significantly lighter in cancer-cell-transplanted mice than in nontreated mice (0.01), regardless of the amount of pure curry in the diet; the heart weight did not differ significantly between the groups.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 329-350 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Ecology of Food and Nutrition |
Volume | 45 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2006 |
Keywords
- Body weight
- Cytotoxicity
- Life span
- Mice
- Pure curry
- Sarcoma-180