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Gastric Cancer Therapy

Reports outline gastric cancer therapy study results from Duksung Women's University, College of Pharmacy

Published in Drug Week, May 25th, 2007

New research, "Effects of constituents of Amomum xanthioides on gastritis in rats and on growth of gastric cancer cells," is the subject of a report. "In this study we investigated the effects of constituents of Amomum xanthioides (AX) on gastritis in rats and on the growth of human gastric cancer cells. The ethanol extract of Amomum xanthioides significantly inhibited HCl ethanol-induced gastric lesions and the growth of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylon)," researchers in Seoul, Korea report.

"The ethanol extract of AX was further fractionated with hexane, chloroform, butanol and H20. Among these fractions, oral treatment with the butanol fraction at a dose of 350...

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