Antitumor Effects of Cannabidiol, a Nonpsychoactive Cannabinoid, on Human Glioma Cell Lines

@article{Massi2004AntitumorEO,
  title={Antitumor Effects of Cannabidiol, a Nonpsychoactive Cannabinoid, on Human Glioma Cell Lines},
  author={Paola Massi and Angelo Vaccani and Stefania Ceruti and Arianna Colombo and Maria Pia Abbracchio and Daniela Parolaro},
  journal={Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics},
  year={2004},
  volume={308},
  pages={838 - 845}
}
Recently, cannabinoids (CBs) have been shown to possess antitumor properties. Because the psychoactivity of cannabinoid compounds limits their medicinal usage, we undertook the present study to evaluate the in vitro antiproliferative ability of cannabidiol (CBD), a nonpsychoactive cannabinoid compound, on U87 and U373 human glioma cell lines. The addition of CBD to the culture medium led to a dramatic drop of mitochondrial oxidative metabolism [3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H… 
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