Improvement of cytotoxic activity of local anesthetics against human breast cancer cell line through the cyclodextrin complexes

ABSTRACT

Among the potent anticancer agents, Local Anesthetics (LA) have been found to be efficient against many different types of cancer cells. However, the major disadvantage associated with the use of LA its low systemic bioavailability when administered due to its poor aqueous solubility. Our present work concentrates on improving the bio-availability by complexing with cyclodextrin. We synthesized the inclusion complexion by co-precipitation method which is an efficient method among other and characterized the formulation of complex by UV and fluorescence studies. The in-vitro study of cytotoxicity against breast cancer cell line is performed. Our study shows the formation of the complex with 1:1 ratio and the result show both Benzocaine and Tetracaine inclusion complex has higher potential towards breast cancer cell than the free drug.

KEYWORDS:

• Cytotoxicity
• fluorescence spectroscopy
• inclusion complex
• patch-dock server