Artemisinin: A Promising Adjunct for Cancer Therapy

Artemisinin is a herb derived from Artemesia annua (also known as sweet wormwood) and is known for its use as effective antimalarial pharmacotherapy. Recent studies have shown that artemisinin has anti-angiogenic and growth inhibition effects, as well as an apoptotic ability secondary to its inheren...

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Autores principales: Waseem, Yamna, Hasan, Choudhary A, Ahmed, Furqan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
Materias:
Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30697504
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3628
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description Artemisinin is a herb derived from Artemesia annua (also known as sweet wormwood) and is known for its use as effective antimalarial pharmacotherapy. Recent studies have shown that artemisinin has anti-angiogenic and growth inhibition effects, as well as an apoptotic ability secondary to its inherent endo-peroxidase activity.
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spelling pubmed-63474412019-01-29 Artemisinin: A Promising Adjunct for Cancer Therapy Waseem, Yamna Hasan, Choudhary A Ahmed, Furqan Cureus Infectious Disease Artemisinin is a herb derived from Artemesia annua (also known as sweet wormwood) and is known for its use as effective antimalarial pharmacotherapy. Recent studies have shown that artemisinin has anti-angiogenic and growth inhibition effects, as well as an apoptotic ability secondary to its inherent endo-peroxidase activity. Cureus 2018-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6347441/ /pubmed/30697504 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3628 Text en Copyright © 2018, Waseem et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Artemisinin: A Promising Adjunct for Cancer Therapy
title Artemisinin: A Promising Adjunct for Cancer Therapy
title_full Artemisinin: A Promising Adjunct for Cancer Therapy
title_fullStr Artemisinin: A Promising Adjunct for Cancer Therapy
title_full_unstemmed Artemisinin: A Promising Adjunct for Cancer Therapy
title_short Artemisinin: A Promising Adjunct for Cancer Therapy
title_sort artemisinin: a promising adjunct for cancer therapy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347441/
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