Diosgenin Cytotoxic effects on the growth of acute myeloid leukemia cell line (HL-60)

Acute myeloid leukemia or AML is the most common cancer in adult. A wide range of therapeutic protocols for dealing with the lung cancer therapy. Medical herbals extracts are candidate for therapy because of less side effects, among them cytotoxicity of extracts with high antioxidant activity such as diosgenin are under study. In this study the cytotoxic effect of diosgenin as an antioxidant found in fenugreek extract on the growth of HL-60 cell line has been studied