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In
1995, Elangovan V, Govindasamy S, Ramamoorthy N, Balasubramaanian
conducted in vitro studies on the anticancer activity of Bacopa
extract. The saw that Bacopa saponin fractions have cytotoxic
activity for sarcoma-180 cells. It is thought this might be due to
Bacopa's inhibition of DNA replication in the cancerous cell line.
Human testing awaits
( Elangovan V, Govindasamy S, Ramaoorthy N, Balasubramanian K. In
vitro studies on the anti cancer activity of Bacopa monniera.
Fitoterapia 1995; 66; 211-215) .
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