Phytochemical investigation of and family Aizoaceae and evaluation of their cytotoxic activity.

This study aims to shed light on the phytochemical composition and the biological effect of two members of family and Gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was used to investigate the lipoidal matter and the phenolic content, respectively. The MTT assay was used to evaluate the cytotoxic activity against MCF-7 (breast cancer), HepG2 (liver cancer) and HCT-116 (colorectal cancer) cell lines. The total phenolic acids and the total flavonoid content of were found to be higher than that of Phytol, hexadecanoic acid, -coumaric, ferulic and - hydroxybenzoic acids were the major detected compounds.