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Insight Approaches of Medicinal Plants for the Discovery of Anticancer Drugs

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Cancer is one of the most serious illnesses of our civilization. The International Agency for Research on Cancer estimated that 14.1 million new cancer cases were diagnosed and that 8.2 million patients died from this disease worldwide in 2012 alone. Therefore, there is an urgent need for novel anticancer agents as well as new treatment strategies. Natural products have been valuable sources of new therapeutic agents. Thus, the aim of present chapter is to provide an overview of the anticancer natural compounds highlighting the successful cases with clinical application such as Taxol, vincristine and omacetaxine mepesuccinate; those involved in clinical trials such as parthenolide, betulinic acid, ingenol mebutate and curcumin; and the ones with high degree of activity and safety profile such as resveratrol, ursolic acid, tetrandrine and triptolide. For each one of these compounds, it will be presented and discussed its natural origin, cell target, mechanism of action, pharmacologic aspects as well as the structural modifications that improve its anticancer properties in order to summarize the recent medicinal advances of natural anticancer compounds and their analogues. All these aspects aim to draw our readers’ attention to the plants and/or their secondary metabolites therapeutic potential and in consequence value the plants’ role in anticancer drug discovery.

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Pinto, D.C.G.A., Seca, A.M.L., Silva, A.M.S. (2017). Insight Approaches of Medicinal Plants for the Discovery of Anticancer Drugs. In: Akhtar, M., Swamy, M. (eds) Anticancer Plants: Clinical Trials and Nanotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8216-0_4

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