Cancer is a major health problem with significant morbidity and mortality. In addition, plants
are a source of metabolites with diverse biological properties, including antitumor potential …

Medicinal plants are traditionally used in Mexico to treat diseases such as cancer. The
present study aimed to evaluate the cytotoxic, antioxidant, and anti-hemolytic activity of 15 …

ABSTRACT Ibervillea sonorae Greene, Cucurbita ficifolia Bouché, Tagetes lucida Cav and
Justicia spicigera Scheltdd are Mexican native plants used in the treatment of different …

Crude extracts from nine plants widely used in Mexican traditional medicine for the treatment
of cancer have been subjected to a bioscreening study to detect cytotoxic activity against …

Background: Cancer is considered a serious public health problem in the world; searching
alternative treatments of medicinal plants constitute a promissory field to find new anticancer …

Background: Throughout the years humanity has used plants to treat different illnesses.
Plants have several secondary metabolites such as phenol compounds, which have …

AIM OF THE STUDY: This review provides a summary of Mexican medicinal flora in terms of
ethnobotanical, pharmacology, and chemistry of natural products related to anticancer …

Many biologically active herbal ingredients are employed in the pharmacological industry
(Gurib-Fakim, 2006) eg those used in clinical trials for anticancer activity (Phillipson, 2007) …

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Plants have been used in folk medicine by
Mayan ancient people from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, to treat some diseases …

Venezuela is a country where indigenous and local communities use over 1,500 species of
plants for medicinal purposes. Many drugs used in the treatment of cancer are of plant …