J. Biol. Sci. Med. (2017) 3 (2): 9-13
Journal of Biological Sciences and Medicine
Available online at www.jbscim.com
ISSN: 2455-5266
9
Research Article Open Access
Anticarcinogenic effects of Soybean (Glycine max) in Mouse
model System
Udita Singh, Pallavi Indurkar, Arti Saxena, Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Pranav Mishra,
Narita Singh and Arvind Kumar Tripathi*
Centre for Biotechnology Studies, A.P.S. University, Rewa, MP, India
*Corresponding author: arvindt2584@gmail.com
ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT
Article History:
Received
2 June 2017
Accepted
23 June 2017
Available online
30 June 2017
Cancer is one of the rapidly growing diseases, which is now second leading cause of
death. Our preexisted therapeutics has very little effect with higher range of side effects.
Chemoprevention is a novel strategy which is currently based on the herbal drugs which
have chemo-protective potentials. Our research work is based on the phytochemicals
present in the plant which could reverse or suppress tumor growth. In present
investigation we selected Glycine max (Soybean) to evaluate its anti-cancerous effects.
We evaluated hepatic antioxidant profile and revealed that use of different doses of
Glycine max work over GSH, Catalase activity meanwhile effect on lipid peroxidation
reveal that lipid peroxidation was significantly decreased with higher doses of Glycine
max. Our findings clearly suggest that Glycine max can significantly suppress or reverse
tumor formation by increasing the activity of antioxidant enzymes and lipid
peroxidation could be reversely altered.
Key words:
Chemoprevention;
Glycine max;
Antioxidant enzyme
assay; Lipid
Peroxidation
Copyright: © 2017 Singh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,
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Introduction
Our body is made up of billions of cells; many of
these cells grow, divide, differentiate and then die
in a predictable manner. Cancer occurs when
something goes wrong with this system, causing
uncontrolled cell division and growth.
Chemoprevention is the use of pharmacologic or
natural agents that inhibit the development of
invasive cancer either by blocking the DNA
damage that initiates carcinogenesis or by
arresting or reversing the progression of
premalignant cells in which such damage has
already occurred. It is well established that
primary prevention is the most effective means of
disease control, especially for cancer remedy. It
was defined as the utilization of chemically active
compounds to reverse, suppress or prevent
progression of disease from pre-invasive cancer
to flank malignancy (Barnes 1995).
The generation of reactive oxygen species
(ROS) is a natural process in any biological
system and their subsequent accumulation
induces oxidative stress at the cellular level
(Sultana and Saleem 2004). Although almost all
organisms possess antioxidant defense and repair
systems that have evolved to protect them against
oxidative damage, these systems are insufficient
to prevent the damage entirely. However,
exogenous antioxidants, usually found in foods,
can delay or inhibit the initiation or propagation