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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Plant Metabolomics: The Future of Anticancer Drug Discovery.

Ranin Dabbousy, Mohamad Rima, Rabih Roufayel, Mohamad Rahal, Christian Legros, Jean-Marc Sabatier, Ziad Fajloun

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 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

7 authors.

Ranin DabbousyLaboratory of Applied Biotechnology (LBA3B), Department of Cell Culture, Azm Center for Research in Biotechnology and Its Applications, EDST, Lebanese University, Tripoli 1300, Lebanon.
Mohamad RimaDepartment of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University, Byblos P.O. Box 36, Lebanon.ORCID 0000-0002-0335-9882
Rabih RoufayelCollege of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Egaila 54200, Kuwait.ORCID 0000-0002-4595-1104
Mohamad RahalSchool of Pharmacy, Lebanese International University, Beirut 146404, Lebanon.ORCID 0000-0002-9707-6217
Christian LegrosINSERM, CNRS, MITOVASC, Equipe CarME, SFR ICAT, Faculty of Medicine, University Angers, 49000 Angers, France.ORCID 0000-0002-3346-7059
Jean-Marc SabatierCNRS, INP, Inst Neurophysiopathol, Aix-Marseille Université, 13385 Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0002-9040-5647
Ziad FajlounLaboratory of Applied Biotechnology (LBA3B), Department of Cell Culture, Azm Center for Research in Biotechnology and Its Applications, EDST, Lebanese University, Tripoli 1300, Lebanon.ORCID 0000-0002-6502-3110

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug development from medicinal plants constitutes an important strategy for finding natural anticancer therapies. While several plant secondary metabolites with potential antitumor activities have been identified, well-defined mechanisms of action remained uncovered. In fact, studies of medicinal plants have often focused on the genome, transcriptome, and proteome, dismissing the relevance of the metabolome for discovering effective plant-based drugs. Metabolomics has gained huge interest in cancer research as it facilitates the identification of potential anticancer metabolites and uncovers the metabolomic alterations that occur in cancer cells in response to treatment. This holds great promise for investigating the mode of action of target metabolites. Although metabolomics has made significant contributions to drug discovery, research in this area is still ongoing. In this review, we emphasize the significance of plant metabolomics in anticancer research, which continues to be a potential technique for the development of anticancer drugs in spite of all the challenges encountered. As well, we provide insights into the essential elements required for performing effective metabolomics analyses.

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anticancer drugsbioactive metabolitesdrug discoverymedicinal plantsmetabolomicsplant metabolomicspromising tool

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PMID39458949
PMCPMC11510165

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