Anticancer Agents from Unique Natural Products Sources

Anticancer agents from diverse natural sources.

This review attempts to portray the discovery and development of anticancer agents/drugs from diverse natural sources. Natural molecules from these natural sources including plants, microbes and marine organisms have been the basis of treatment of human diseases since the ancient times. Compounds derived from nature have been important sources of new drugs and also serve as templates for synthe...

Natural Products as Sources of Antitumor Agents

Natural products in anticancer therapy.

Many pharmaceutical agents have been discovered by screening natural products from plants, animals, marine organisms and microorganisms. Vincristine, irinotecan, etoposide and paclitaxel are examples of plant-derived compounds that are being employed in cancer treatment, and dactinomycin, bleomycin and doxorubicin are anticancer agents derived from microbial sources. Citarabine is an example of...

Anticancer Properties of Natural Products

1Department of Pharmacodynamics and Biopharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Szeged, Szeged 6720, Hungary 2Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Diagnostics and Faculty Center of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria 3Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ege University, 35100 Izmir, Turkey 4Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Co...

Metabolomics: a tool for anticancer lead-finding from natural products.

Natural products have been the source of many drugs used in modern therapeutics, and particularly in the case of anticancer drugs, more than 50 % originally came from natural products. Their importance as a source of leads for new drugs therefore cannot be underestimated. However, due to the painstaking way of conventional lead-finding, the attention towards natural products has been deviated i...