Hindawi Publishing Corporation Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2011, Article ID 969275, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2011/969275 Research Article Enhanced Antitumoral Activity of Extracts Derived from Cultured Udotea flabellum (Chlorophyta) Rosa Moo-Puc,1, 2 Daniel Robledo,1 and Yolanda Freile-Pelegrin1 1 Department of Marine Resources, Cinvestav, Km 6 Carretera Antigua a Progreso, Cordemex, A.P. 73, 97310 M´erida, YUC, Mexico 2 Unidad de Investigacion´ M´edica Yucatan,´ Unidad M´edica de Alta Especialidad, Centro M´edico Ignacio Garc´ıa T´ellez, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social; 41 No 439 x 32 y 34, Colonia Industrial CP, 97150 M´erida, YUC, Mexico Correspondence should be addressed to Daniel Robledo,
[email protected] Received 16 January 2011; Accepted 3 June 2011 Copyright © 2011 Rosa Moo-Puc et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Very few studies have been performed to evaluate the effect of culture conditions on the production or activity of active metabolites in algae. Previous studies suggest that the synthesis of bioactive compounds is strongly influenced by irradiance level. To investigate whether the antiproliferative activity of Udotea flabellum extracts is modified after cultivation, this green alga was cultured under four photon flux densities (PFD) for 30 days. After 10, 20, and 30 days, algae were extracted with dichloromethane: methanol and screened for antiproliferative activity against four human cancer cell lines (laryngeal—Hep-2, cervix—HeLa, cervix squamous— SiHa and nasopharynx—KB) by SRB assay.