| Autor: |
Megha Das, Nitesh Mishra, Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, Tarun Minocha, Soumya Ranjan Mohanty |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
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| DOI: |
10.1016/b978-0-12-821710-8.00012-6 |
| Popis: |
Now a day's cancer is one of the second leading health issue across the globe. Low- and middle-income countries are more prone to cancer and approximately 70% of demises occur in these countries. Melatonin, being a natural signaling molecule is ubiquitously found in almost all the living creatures from organisms to plants. During the past few decades, several studies have inflamed the attention of melatonin as a potent candidate to combat myriad of cancers because of its anti-cancer attribute. Melatonin exhibits the oncostatic property hence, halts the growth of different tumors during different stages of their progression. In a nutshell, this chapter epitomes the therapeutic potential of melatonin against cancer and serves as a concrete platform for researchers to pillar the basic and clinical studies on melatonin for future research directions. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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