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ReviewJournal of tropical medicine2022

Natural Products for Cancer Therapy: A Review of Their Mechanism of Actions and Toxicity in the Past Decade.

Yasir Osman Ali Abdalla, Bavani Subramaniam, Shaik Nyamathulla, Noorasyikin Shamsuddin, Norhafiza M Arshad, Kein Seong Mun, Khalijah Awang, Noor Hasima Nagoor

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Review in Journal of tropical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Yasir Osman Ali AbdallaInstitute of Biological Sciences (Genetics and Molecular Biology), Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Bavani SubramaniamInstitute of Biological Sciences (Genetics and Molecular Biology), Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Shaik NyamathullaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8945-912X
Noorasyikin ShamsuddinDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Norhafiza M ArshadCentre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture (CEBAR), Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Kein Seong MunDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Khalijah AwangCentre for Natural Products and Drug Discovery (CENAR), Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Noor Hasima NagoorInstitute of Biological Sciences (Genetics and Molecular Biology), Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ethnopharmacological information gathered over many centuries and the presence of diverse metabolites have made the medicinal plants as the prime source of drugs. Despite the positive attributes of natural products, there are many questions pertaining to their mechanism of actions and molecular targets that impede their development as therapeutic agents. One of the major challenges in cancer research is the toxicity exerted by investigational agents towards the host. An understanding of their molecular targets, underlying mechanisms can reveal their anticancer efficacy, help in optimal therapeutic dose selection, to mitigate their side effects and toxicity towards the host. The purpose of this review is to collate details on natural products that are recently been investigated extensively in the past decade for their anticancer potential. Besides, critical analysis of their molecular targets and underlying mechanisms on multiple cancer cell lines, an in-depth probe of their toxicological screening on rodent models is outlined as well to observe the prevalence of their toxicity towards host. This review can provide valuable insights for researchers in developing methods, strategies during preclinical and clinical evaluation of anticancer candidates.

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PMCPMC8933079

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