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. 2017 Jan 22;2017:9017902. doi: 10.1155/2017/9017902

Table 6.

Anticancer effect of rice by-products in vitro.

Author(s) Year Components Findings
Hudson et al. [62] 2000 Rice bran phenolic extracts (tricin, ferulic acid, caffeic acid, and methoxycinnamic acid) Reduced the number of viable SW480 cells and inhibited the colony-forming ability.

Luo et al. [103] 2005 Gamma-oryzanol (cycloartenyl trans-ferulate and 24-methylenecycloartanol trans-ferulate) from rice bran Moderate cytotoxicity effect against MCF-7 cells.

Kim et al. [100] 2007 Methanol extract of rice husk Highly cytotoxic against colon cancer cells, with IC50 value of 0.5 μg/mL.

Gollapudi and Ghoneum [104] 2008 MGN-3/biobran, modified arabinoxylan from rice bran Treatment with MGN-3 increased susceptibility of human breast cancer cells to daunorubicin (5.5-fold for MCF-7 and 2.5-fold for HCC70 cells) compared with that of human breast cancer cells treated with daunorubicin alone.

Joung et al. [105] 2008 Momilactone B, an allelochemical of rice husk Suppressed hypoxia-induced increases of cyclin D1 in human breast cancer cells.

Kannan et al. [106] 2008 Peptide hydrolysates derived from heat-stabilized defatted rice bran Suppressed the proliferation of Caco-2 and HepG2 cancer cells.

Lee et al. [99] 2008 Momilactone B, an allelochemical of rice husks Inhibited the proliferation of human leukemic T-cells (Jurkat).

Punyatong et al. [107] 2008 PA and C3G in purple glutinous rice bran Dose-dependent cytotoxic effect on X63, a mouse-plasma cancer cell line of myeloma cells.

Kannan et al. [108] 2009 Peptide hydrolysates derived from rice bran Cytotoxicity effect of <5 kDa peptide fraction separated from rice bran protein hydrolysate against HCT-116.

Kong et al. [98] 2009 Rice bran cycloartenyl ferulate Induced apoptosis in SW480 and SW620 cells through activation of caspase-3 and caspase-8.

Kannan et al. [109] 2010 Peptides derived from defatted rice bran Inhibited Caco-2 and HCT-116 cells growth.

Nurul-Husna et al. [110] 2010 Rice bran phytic acid Suppressed the proliferation of HT-29 cells.

Chen et al. [63] 2012 Red rice bran Exhibited strong inhibition on leukemia, cervical, and stomach cancer cells.

Forster et al. [71] 2013 Rice bran (variety Jasmine 85) Exhibited a strong inhibitory effect against Caco-2 and HT-29 cells.

Takashima et al. [111] 2013 Water and ethanol extracts of rice bran Markedly inhibited the growth of LS174T cells.

Tan et al. [72] 2013 WBR and methanol extract of brewers' rice Inhibited the proliferation of HT-29 cell line.

C3G: cyanidin 3-glucoside; Caco-2: colon cancer cells; HCC70: human breast cancer cells; HCT-116: human colon cancer; HepG2: liver cancer; HT-29: human colorectal cancer; IC50: inhibition concentration for 50%; LS174T: human colon cancer; MCF-7: human breast adenocarcinoma; PA: proanthocyanidin; SW480: human colon cancer; SW620: human colon cancer; WBR: water extract of brewers' rice.