Pathological Evaluation of Anti-Tumour Effects of Withaferin A against Experimentally Induced Mammary Tumour in Rats
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2014
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TANUVAS, Chennai
Abstract
The present study was conducted to explore the anti-tumour effect of Withaferin A in
DMBA induced mammary tumours in Sprague-Dawley rats. Seventy two rats were equally
and randomly distributed to each of the control, DMBA, tamoxifen and Withaferin A groups.
Each group contained eighteen rats.
The study was conducted for a period of 16 weeks. Animals from DMBA, tamoxifen
and Withaferin A groups were administered with 4 weekly doses of 5 mg DMBA/animal in
olive oil by oral gavage beginning at the 45th day of age. From the day of first dosing of
DMBA, tamoxifen (100 μg/kg BW/Day) was given daily in gingelly oil to tamoxifen group
and Withaferin A (16 mg/kg BW/thrice a week) was given thrice a week in PBS (pH 7.4) to
Withaferin A group by oral gavage till the end of study
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Veterinary Science, Veterinary Pathology