The protective effect of biochanin A (BCA) on the histopathology, immunohistochemistry, and biochemistry of thioacetamide (TAA)-induced liver cirrhosis in vivo was investigated. There was a ...significant reduction in liver weight and hepatocyte propagation, with much lower cell injury in rat groups treated with BCA (25 mg/kg and 50 mg/kg) following a TAA induction. These groups had significantly lower levels of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA). The liver homogenates showed increased antioxidant enzyme activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and glutathione peroxidase (GPx), as well as decreased malondialdehyde (MDA) levels. The serum biomarkers associated with liver function, namely alkaline phosphatase (ALP), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and gamma glutamyl transaminase (GGT), returned to normal levels, comparable to those observed in both the normal control group and the reference control group. Taken together, the normal microanatomy of hepatocytes, the inhibition of PCNA and α-SMA, improved antioxidant enzymes (SOD, CAT, and GPx), and condensed MDA with repairs of liver biomarkers validated BCA’s hepatoprotective effect.
The used Resveratrol-Thiadiazol derivatives (A, B, C) were prepared and characterized by 1H-13C NMR and FT-IR spectroscopies. This study used two cell lines for cytotoxicity testing: MCF-7 (Human ...Breast Cancer Cells) and WRL-68 (Human Normal Liver Cells), The result of anticancer study showed that derivative C had significant selectivity on MCF-7 used in this study even in very low concentration used to evaluate the anticancer activity while derivatives A and B showed non-significant selectivity on MCF-7 in low concentration while in high concentration showed small selectivity which may be negligible, this selectivity determined according to the comparison between: MCF-7 (Human Breast Cancer Cells) and WRL-68 (Human Normal Liver Cells).
