Cytotoxic Activity on Some Verbascum Species Growing in Turkey
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چکیده
Plants have been used as folkloric sources of medicinal agents since the beginning of mankind. As the age of modern medicine, single pure drugs emerged, and plant-derived active principles, their semi-synthetic and synthetic analogs have served as a major route to new pharmaceuticals. Since 1961, plant-derived compounds have been approved for use as anticancer drugs: vinblastine (Velban®), vincristine (Oncovin®), etoposide (VP-16®), taxol (Paclitaxel®), etc.1.
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