Carvacrol, thymol and eugenol belong to a class of naturally presenting phenols with a ten-carbon unit, which are present in essential oils of many plants. These versatile molecules are incorporated as useful ingredients in many food products and find applications in agricultural, pharmaceutical, fragrance, cosmetic, flavor and other industries. They are wide ranging of biological and pharmaceutical activities: anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, analgesic, anticancer and antioxidant. This review summarizes pharmacological and medicinal activities of these phytochemicals and their synthetic hybrids.
In present study we report prominent effect of carvacrol (5-isopropyl-2-methyl phenol), thymol (2-isopropyl-5-methyl phenol) and eugenol (4 allyl-2-methoxyphenol) on Human melanoma cells. These three compounds were screened for Anti-proliferative test by using Sulforhodamine B (SRB) assay. For this investigation we used human breast melanoma cell line MCF-7, human skin melanoma cell line SK-MEL-2, human colon melanoma cell line HCT-15 and human pancreatic melanoma cell line MIAPaCa-2. Carvacrol was identified as most potent molecule with low GI 50 value as 0.1 μL for selected human cancer cell lines; which is comparatively equal to standard drug 14 Adriamycin (ADR). Thymol and Eugenol also exhibited remarkable GI 50 for human cancer cell 15 lines.
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