Discovery of new anticancer agents from higher plants
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Discovery of new anticancer agents from higher plants.
Small organic molecules derived from higher plants have been one of the mainstays of cancer chemotherapy for approximately the past half a century. In the present review, selected single chemical entity natural products of plant origin and their semi-synthetic derivatives currently in clinical trials are featured as examples of new cancer chemotherapeutic drug candidates. Several more recently ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Bioscience
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1945-0516,1945-0524
DOI: 10.2741/257