Evaluation of Anticancer Activity and Toxicity of Tocotrienol Extracted from Rice Bran
2006
Lee, Y.S. (Soonchunhyang University, Asan, Republic of Korea) | Kim, Y.H. (Soonchunhyang University, Asan, Republic of Korea), E-mail: [email protected]
Rice is the most important crop in Korea and its annual production of 5.2 million ton is followed by over 0.5 million ton of bran as by-products of milling process. Although rice bran contains various nutritious and pharmaceutical compounds, rice brans are rarely utilized as functional food sources in Korea. In recent, tocotrienols are well known having distinctive pharmaceutical effectiveness. So tocotrienols extracted from rice bran oil were evaluated about Pharmaceutical function. The IC∧50 of tocotrienols products against liver cancer, HepG2 cells were 149 mg mL-¹, indicating anticancer activity of final products.
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