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Recent Advances in the Application of Cucurbitacins as Anticancer Agents

Cucurbitacins are tetracyclic triterpenoid secondary metabolites, widely distributed in the Cucurbitaceae family. These bitter-tasting compounds act primarily as defense mechanisms against external injuries, and thus against herbivores, and furthermore, they have also found use in folk medicine in t...

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Autores principales: Zieniuk, Bartłomiej, Pawełkowicz, Magdalena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10608718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37887406
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo13101081