Plant-based natural products in cancer therapeutics

Various cells in our body regularly divide to replace old cells and dead cells. For a living cell to be growing, cell division and differentiation is highly essential. Cancer is characterised by uncontrollable cell division and invasion of other tissues due to dysregulation in the cell cycle. An accumulation of genetic changes or mutations develops through different physical (UV and other radiations), chemical (chewing and smoking of tobacco, chemical pollutants/mutagens), biological (viruses) and hereditary factors that can lead to cancer. Now, cancer is considered as a major death-causing factor worldwide. Due to advancements in technology, treatment like chemotherapy, radiation therapy, bone marrow transplant, immunotherapy, hormone therapy and many more in the rows. Although, it also has some side effects like fatigue, hair fall, anaemia, nausea and vomiting, constipation. Modern improved drug therapies come with severe side effects. There is need for safer, more effective, low-cost treatment with lesser side-effects. Biologically active natural products derived from plants are the emerging strategy to deal with cancer proliferation. Moreover, they possess anti-carcinogenic, anti-proliferative and anti-mutagenic properties with reduced side effects. They also detoxify and remove reactive substances formed by carcinogenic agents. In this article, we discuss different plant-based products and their mechanism of action against cancer.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:32

Enthalten in:

Journal of drug targeting - 32(2024), 4 vom: 01. Apr., Seite 365-380

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mahato, Rohini [VerfasserIn]
Behera, Dillip Kumar [VerfasserIn]
Patra, Biswajit [VerfasserIn]
Das, Shradhanjali [VerfasserIn]
Lakra, Kulwant [VerfasserIn]
Pradhan, Surya Narayan [VerfasserIn]
Abbas, Sk Jahir [VerfasserIn]
Ali, Sk Imran [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biological Products
Cancer
Cancer proliferation
Cell cycle
Cell division
Journal Article
Natural products
Review

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Date Completed 03.04.2024

Date Revised 03.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/1061186X.2024.2315474

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36804713X