Mini Review: Anticancer activity of diterpenoid peroxides

Anticancer Properties of Psidium guajava - a Mini-Review.

Cancer is a complex disease caused by a progressive accumulation of multiple genetic mutations. Consumption of fruits is associated with lower risk of several cancers, which is mainly associated to their phytochemical content. The use of functional foods and chemopreventive compounds seems to contribute in this process, acting by mechanisms of antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-angiogenic and...

SHetA2 – A Mini Review of a Promising Anticancer Drug

Heteroarotinoids (Hets) are a novel class of heterocycles which contain an aryl ring and a heterocylic ring and which show potential as anticancer drugs [1]. These heteroarotinoids control cell growth, differentiation, and apoptosis of the cancer cells. Heteroarotinoids were originally derived from an arotinoid class related to retinoids by strategically placing a heteroatom (O,N,S) in the mole...

Dental Bleaching Techniques; Hydrogen-carbamide Peroxides and Light Sources for Activation, an Update. Mini Review Article

Hydrogen and carbamide peroxides have been successfully used for many years; in the past century the dental bleaching technique suffered several changes and almost 10 years before new millennium the technique was finally recognized by the international agencies of regulation. It is important that Dentists handle the peroxides with the essential knowledge, because it is demonstrated that satisfa...

Anti-venom Activity of Medicinal Plants – A Mini Review

Anticancer activity of botanical compounds in ancient fermented beverages (review).

Humans around the globe probably discovered natural remedies against disease and cancer by trial and error over the millennia. Biomolecular archaeological analyses of ancient organics, especially plants dissolved or decocted as fermented beverages, have begun to reveal the preliterate histories of traditional pharmacopeias, which often date back thousands of years earlier than ancient textual, ...