Livistona Chinensis is a tropical plant and is also known as the Chinese Fan Palm or Fountain Palm.
This plant is native to Eastern Asia which includes China, Japan and Taiwan. The leaves of this plant are harvested from the wild and have been widely used to make fans in China. Among the uses, one can make hats, brooms, raincoats and it is widely used as an ornamental piece in the tropical settings.
This plant is listed as a category II invasive plant because of the potential to disrupt native plant communities.
Anti-Tumor– In this work, we tried to purify protein kinase inhibitory activity and antitumor activity from ethanol extracts of the seeds of Livistona chinensis R. Brown (LC), a traditional herb used for the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC)
Further studies revealed that epidermal growth factor (EGF)-induced activation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and MAPK could be potently inhibited by LC-X in both NPC-TW02 and A431cells in a dose-dependent manner.
The active components with both antitumor and protein kinases inhibitor activities were highly purified from LC, which can inhibit the EGF signaling events mainly through EGFR modification. Blockage of the functions of EGFR may account for the antitumor activity of these active components.
In this next study they screened the anti-tumor active parts from the seeds of Livistona chinensis R. Br. and its mechanism of anti-angiogenesis effect.
The ethyl acetate part, which is considered as active part of alcohol extract from seeds of Livistona chinensis R. Br., has fine anti-tumor activity, and its mechanism might be associated with reducing VEGF protein secretion and inhibiting the expression of Flk-1 mRNA and protein.
In this next study we observed the effects of extracts from root of Livistona chinensis on the growth inhibition in seven carcinoma cell lines.
The results show that ethyl acetate of alcohol extracts from roots Livistona chinensis possesses the role of antitumor in cell culture.
In a similar study they estimated the anti-tumor activity of the extracts of four traditional Chinese medicines. Methods MTT assay was applied to screen the anti-tumor effect of the extracts of four traditional Chinese medicines on two tumor cell lines in vitro.
The extracts of Livistona chinensis R.Br. and Pyrola calliantha H.Andres had remarkable inhibitory effect on Hela cell line.
Anti-Cancer – In a screen for naturally occurring angiogenic inhibitors, we have identified an extract from the seed of the plant Livistona chinensis, which has potent anti-angiogenic and anti-tumor activity.
When the seed is separated into different components, the shell including the seed skin appears more potent than the inner kernel in tumor suppression. Our results suggest that the extract from the shell of Livistona chinensis may be a potential supplemental source for cancer treatment.
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