Anticancer potential of alkaloids: a key emphasis to colchicine, vinblastine, vincristine, vindesine, vinorelbine and vincamine

P Dhyani, C Quispe, E Sharma, A Bahukhandi… - Cancer cell …, 2022 - Springer
Cancer, one of the leading illnesses, accounts for about 10 million deaths worldwide. The
treatment of cancer includes surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and drug therapy …

The Role and Mechanism of Perilla frutescens in Cancer Treatment

S Huang, Y Nan, G Chen, N Ning, Y Du, D Lu, Y Yang… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Perilla frutescens is an annual herb of the Labiatae family and is widely grown in several
countries in Asia. Perilla frutescens is a plant that is used medicinally in its entirety, as seen …

Anticancer applications of essential oils formulated into lipid-based delivery nanosystems

J Jampilek, K Kralova - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The use of natural compounds is becoming increasingly popular among patients, and there
is a renewed interest among scientists in nature-based bioactive agents. Traditionally …

Nitidine chloride induces caspase 3/GSDME-dependent pyroptosis by inhibting PI3K/Akt pathway in lung cancer

F Yu, W Tan, Z Chen, X Shen, X Mo, X Mo, J He… - Chinese medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background As the increasing mortality and incidence of lung cancer (LC), there is an urgent
need to discover novel treatment agent. In this study, we aimed to investigate the anti-LC …

Cytotoxic Activities and the Allantoinase Inhibitory Effect of the Leaf Extract of the Carnivorous Pitcher Plant Nepenthes miranda

ES Lin, CY Huang - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nepenthes are carnivorous pitcher plants that have several ethnobotanical uses, such as
curing stomachache and fever. Here, we prepared different extracts from the stem, leaf, and …

Tillandsia usneoides Extract Decreases the Primary Tumor in a Murine Breast Cancer Model but Not in Melanoma

P Lasso, L Rojas, C Arévalo, C Urueña, N Murillo… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cancer is a major public health problem worldwide and one of the major
causes of mortality. Current therapies are becoming ineffective due to intratumoral …

Exploring Synergistic Interactions between Natural Compounds and Conventional Chemotherapeutic Drugs in Preclinical Models of Lung Cancer

M Boța, L Vlaia, AR Jîjie, I Marcovici, F Crişan… - Pharmaceuticals, 2024 - mdpi.com
In the current work, the synergy between natural compounds and conventional
chemotherapeutic drugs is comprehensively reviewed in light of current preclinical research …

Dietary Epigenetic Modulators: Unravelling the Still-Controversial Benefits of miRNAs in Nutrition and Disease

E Martino, N D'Onofrio, A Balestrieri, A Colloca… - Nutrients, 2024 - mdpi.com
In the context of nutrient-driven epigenetic alterations, food-derived miRNAs can be
absorbed into the circulatory system and organs of recipients, especially humans, and …

Anticancer and Antioxidant Activities of the Root Extract of the Carnivorous Pitcher Plant Sarracenia purpurea

YH Huang, WY Chiang, PJ Chen, ES Lin, CY Huang - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The carnivorous pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea exhibits many ethnobotanical uses,
including the treatments of type 2 diabetes and tuberculosis-like symptoms. In this study, we …

Advances in plants-derived bioactives for cancer treatment

N Cruz-Martins - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cancer, while a multifactorial chronic disease with an increasing prevalence, has been the
subject of intense investigation, not only because of the growing need to find the main …