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Taxus – The Panacea for Cancer Treatment
Cancer has been major challenge for healthcare sector for a long time. The use of chemotherapy and radiation therapy has its obvious side effects. The scientists have been looking to natural remedies for the treatment of cancer. There have been significant discoveries in this direction such as Vinbl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3330930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22557170 |
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author | Manish, Lavhle Mangesh, Bhalekar Sabale, Vidya |
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description | Cancer has been major challenge for healthcare sector for a long time. The use of chemotherapy and radiation therapy has its obvious side effects. The scientists have been looking to natural remedies for the treatment of cancer. There have been significant discoveries in this direction such as Vinblastine the plant alkaloids. Recent discovery of Taxol a diterpenoid obtained form Taxus species has opened new vistas in the treatment of cancer and can be considered a major break through. This article is an attempt to overview the various aspects such as biological & geographical sources, active principles, mechanism of action, extraction, isolation, estimation and traditional uses of Taxol. |
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spelling | pubmed-33309302012-04-27 Taxus – The Panacea for Cancer Treatment Manish, Lavhle Mangesh, Bhalekar Sabale, Vidya Anc Sci Life Original Article Cancer has been major challenge for healthcare sector for a long time. The use of chemotherapy and radiation therapy has its obvious side effects. The scientists have been looking to natural remedies for the treatment of cancer. There have been significant discoveries in this direction such as Vinblastine the plant alkaloids. Recent discovery of Taxol a diterpenoid obtained form Taxus species has opened new vistas in the treatment of cancer and can be considered a major break through. This article is an attempt to overview the various aspects such as biological & geographical sources, active principles, mechanism of action, extraction, isolation, estimation and traditional uses of Taxol. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2005 /pmc/articles/PMC3330930/ /pubmed/22557170 Text en Copyright: © Ancient Science of Life http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Manish, Lavhle Mangesh, Bhalekar Sabale, Vidya Taxus – The Panacea for Cancer Treatment |
title | Taxus – The Panacea for Cancer Treatment |
title_full | Taxus – The Panacea for Cancer Treatment |
title_fullStr | Taxus – The Panacea for Cancer Treatment |
title_full_unstemmed | Taxus – The Panacea for Cancer Treatment |
title_short | Taxus – The Panacea for Cancer Treatment |
title_sort | taxus – the panacea for cancer treatment |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3330930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22557170 |
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