Anticancer Natural Products: A Review

Authors

  • Ranwa A. Elrayess Author
  • Heba N. Gad El- Hak Author

Keywords:

Anticancer, Natural product, Plant compounds, Marine flora, Microorganisms, Venom

Abstract

Historically, natural products played a forceful role in human treatment ailments. Nowadays, natural products include a large part
of current pharmaceutical agents, mostly in the field of cancer therapy. The main aim of this review is to provide a comprehensive
summary of the most known natural product used as anticancer globally, including various other natural products. Many of these
natural product appears to act through an anticancer mechanism. Overall, natural product research is a vigorous tool to discover
novel biologically active components with unique mechanisms of action. Given the diversity of nature, it is sensible to indicate
that chemical leads can be produced that are able to interact with most therapeutic targets. This review creates a solid foundation
for further study these natural products with additional research and study.

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Published

2019-08-07