Natural Products as Anticancer Agents.

Natural Products as Anticancer Agents.
Curr Drug Targets. 2020 Dec 30;:
Authors: Varghese R, Dalvi YB
Abstract
Medicinal plants and mushrooms have alwaysfascinated the world as an attractive source of natural compounds for cancer therapy. From ancient times, they have been valued as gourmet food and folk medicine in Oriental practice. For over 40 years, world has witnessed the overwhelming interest of western scientific fraternity in pharmaceutical potential of natural products in combating cancer. The plants and mushrooms credited with success against angiogenesis and cancer metastasis belong to certain Plants including Catharanthus roseus, Aloe Vera,Annona muricata,Curcuma longa, Withania somnifera, and Berberis and mushrooms such as Agaricus,Antrodia,Ganoderma,Grifolafrondosa,Hericiumerinaceus,Phel-linuslinteus, and Trametesversicolor /Coriolusversicolor. The anti-cancer compounds play a pivotal role as free radical scavenger and reactive oxygen species inducer, mitotic spindle kinase inhibitor, anti-mitotic, angiogenesis inhibitor, topoi-somerase inhibitor, apoptosis inducers, and eventually checking cancer invasion, migration and proliferation. The present review updates and focuses on the recent findings of the pharmacologically potential bioactive compounds, their anti-tumor potential, and underlying mechanism of preventing cancer metastasis and angiogenesisin order to raise knowledge for fur-ther investigations to develop can...

Source: Current Drug Targets - December 30, 2020 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Varghese R, Dalvi YB Tags: Curr Drug Targets Source Type: research