Medicinal plants as potential functional foods or resources for obtaining anticancer activity metabolites

Autor: J.R. Caamala Cauich, M.R. Segura Campos, A.M. Martín Ortega, L.A. Victoria Monroy
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Oncological Functional Nutrition ISBN: 9780128198285
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-819828-5.00005-x
Popis: Medicinal plants have been used for the prevention and treatment of cancer all over the world in different traditional medicines. Nowadays, numerous investigations have been carried out on various species of plants against various types of cancer, obtaining a variety of results that indicate a probable antineoplastic effect attributable to bioactive compounds. This chapter is intended to summarize the information related to medicinal plants and cancer.
Databáze: OpenAIRE