<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ahmad Sammani</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Esam Shammaa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fawaz Chehna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abdulkader Rahmo</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The In-Vitro Toxic Effect of The Glycoalkaloids for Some Solanum Species Against The LIM-1863 Cell Line</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pharmacognosy Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Glycoalkaloids</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">LIM-1863</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MTT</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Solanum</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Viability</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">26th May 2014</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">23-31</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt; The LIM-1863 Cell Line is one of the colon cancer types considered to be responsible for a high rate of deaths, and the glycoalkaloids being natural substances existing in the &lt;em&gt;Solanum&lt;/em&gt; species have anticancer effects. &lt;strong&gt;Objective &lt;/strong&gt;This research aims at studying the effect of the glycoalkaloids on viability of the LIM-1863 cancerous cells &lt;em&gt;in-vitro&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Materials and Methods &lt;/strong&gt;The glycoalkaloids in this study are extracted by the ultrasonic waves technique and detecting them by the Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) in addition to incubating of the LIM-1863 cells with different concentrations of the glycoalkaloids for 48 hours and then assessing of the cell viability using the MTT assay. &lt;strong&gt;Results&lt;/strong&gt; The findings showed that the glycoalkaloids have a toxic effect on the LIM-1863 cells and that half of the inhibiting concentration (IC&lt;sub&gt;50&lt;/sub&gt;) of the &lt;em&gt;Solanum&lt;/em&gt; fruits extract: (&lt;em&gt;Solanum nigrum&lt;/em&gt; L.), (&lt;em&gt;Solanum villosum&lt;/em&gt; Mill.) and (&lt;em&gt;Solanum elaeagnifolium&lt;/em&gt; Cav.) on the LIM-1863 cells have the (164.7, 35.91 and 12.14 &amp;mu;g/ml) values successively.&lt;strong&gt; Conclusion &lt;/strong&gt;The observations indicated that the glycoalkaloids are able to inhibit the colon cancer cell proliferation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Key words:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Solanum&lt;/em&gt;, Glycoalkaloids, TLC, LIM-1863, Viability, MTT.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Research Article</style></work-type><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ahmad Sammani&lt;sup&gt;1,*&lt;/sup&gt;, Esam Shammaa&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, Fawaz Chehna&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; and Abdulkader Rahmo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;National Commission for Biotechnology, Damascus, Syria.&lt;/p&gt;</style></auth-address></record></records></xml>