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Reptiles as Promising Sources of Medicinal Natural Products for Cancer Therapeutic Drugs
Natural products have historically played an important role as a source of therapeutic drugs for various diseases, and the development of medicinal natural products is still a field with high potential. Although diverse drugs have been developed for incurable diseases for several decades, discoverin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9025323/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35456708 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics14040874 |
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author | Park, Soon Yong Choi, Hyeongrok Chung, Jin Woong |
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description | Natural products have historically played an important role as a source of therapeutic drugs for various diseases, and the development of medicinal natural products is still a field with high potential. Although diverse drugs have been developed for incurable diseases for several decades, discovering safe and efficient anticancer drugs remains a formidable challenge. Reptiles, as one source of Asian traditional medicines, are known to possess anticancer properties and have been used for a long time without a clarified scientific background. Recently, it has been reported that extracts, crude peptides, sera, and venom isolated from reptiles could effectively inhibit the survival and proliferation of various cancer cells. In this article, we summarize recent studies applying ingredients derived from reptiles in cancer therapy and discuss the difficulties and prospective development of natural product research. |
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spelling | pubmed-90253232022-04-23 Reptiles as Promising Sources of Medicinal Natural Products for Cancer Therapeutic Drugs Park, Soon Yong Choi, Hyeongrok Chung, Jin Woong Pharmaceutics Review Natural products have historically played an important role as a source of therapeutic drugs for various diseases, and the development of medicinal natural products is still a field with high potential. Although diverse drugs have been developed for incurable diseases for several decades, discovering safe and efficient anticancer drugs remains a formidable challenge. Reptiles, as one source of Asian traditional medicines, are known to possess anticancer properties and have been used for a long time without a clarified scientific background. Recently, it has been reported that extracts, crude peptides, sera, and venom isolated from reptiles could effectively inhibit the survival and proliferation of various cancer cells. In this article, we summarize recent studies applying ingredients derived from reptiles in cancer therapy and discuss the difficulties and prospective development of natural product research. MDPI 2022-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9025323/ /pubmed/35456708 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics14040874 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Park, Soon Yong Choi, Hyeongrok Chung, Jin Woong Reptiles as Promising Sources of Medicinal Natural Products for Cancer Therapeutic Drugs |
title | Reptiles as Promising Sources of Medicinal Natural Products for Cancer Therapeutic Drugs |
title_full | Reptiles as Promising Sources of Medicinal Natural Products for Cancer Therapeutic Drugs |
title_fullStr | Reptiles as Promising Sources of Medicinal Natural Products for Cancer Therapeutic Drugs |
title_full_unstemmed | Reptiles as Promising Sources of Medicinal Natural Products for Cancer Therapeutic Drugs |
title_short | Reptiles as Promising Sources of Medicinal Natural Products for Cancer Therapeutic Drugs |
title_sort | reptiles as promising sources of medicinal natural products for cancer therapeutic drugs |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9025323/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35456708 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics14040874 |
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