Licoflavone C has cytotoxic, and antioxidative effects, it has protective effect toward the chromosome damage induced by DAU or MMC in cultured human peripheral lymphocytes. Licoflavone C exhibits a dose-dependent antagonistic activity at concentrations up to 10-4 M, but stimulates α2-galactosidase expression at higher concentrations resulting in a U-shaped-like dose-response curve.

The search for cytotoxic, genotoxic and/or antimutagenic natural compounds is therefore of great relevance, especially in cancer chemotherapy. In view of this, we screened the potential genotoxicity/antigenotoxicty of Licoflavone C (LFLC) - a naturally occurring prenyl-flavone extracted from Genista ephedroides - using the micronucleus (MN) assay on stimulated and cytochalasin B-blocked human lymphocytes. LFLC did not increase the spontaneous MN level up to 600 microM final concentration where a strong toxicity was seen to occur. We therefore performed an antigenotoxicity assay against the two mutagenic anticancer drugs, mitomycin C (MMC) and daunorubicin (DAU), using two non-toxic LFLC concentrations (0.1 microM and 1.0 microM). The MN frequencies induced by 0.025 microg/ml or 0.05 microg/ml DAU were significantly lowered by 45.4% or 46.6% and 41.8% or 44.8% at LFLC 0.1 and 1.0 microM, respectively. After treatment with 0.085 microg/ml or 0.17 microg/ml MMC, we detected a reduction in genotoxicity of 35.1% or 37.0% and of 38.0% or 35.8% at LFLC 0.1 and 1.0 microM, respectively[1]

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