Study of Allium cepa effect to inhibit the growth of tumor cells in BALB/c mice breast cancer

Introduction: Study of Factors affecting regulation and modulation cytokine balance is particularly important in order to inhibit the growth and spread of breast cancer cells in women. In this study the effect of Allium cepa to inhibit the growth of breast cancer cells in female BALB/c mice who have been patient by induction of cell line 4T1 were investigated.Materials and Methods: In this study have been used of the mice, BALB /c female with breast cancer by injection of mouse cell line 4T1. In each group: Normal control, morbid without treatment (sham) and the experimental group (at the same time induction, were receiving onion root extract food rations) were randomly 8 mice. Daily after washing, dewatering roots red onion (Allium cepa) and fed oral for once a day each of the mouse in the experimental group .1 ml/100gBW/day. The mice are placed under deep anesthesia7 weeks after Induced cell line 4T1. During the seven weeks the mice were weighed every other day .Tumor volume was measured by caliper following the formation of the tumor until the end of the seventh week. The tumor weighed after removal from the body. Spleen removed and was placed in RPMI-1640 medium containing 10, FBS and ELISA tests were performed to measure the IFN-γ and IL-4 levels. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software (version 18). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to assess differences between groups and Tukey's test was used in order to determine the significance of differences between groups