NATURAL REMEDIES WITH POTENTIAL ANTI-CANCER ACTIVITY AND ROLE OF PLANT TISSUE CULTURE IN DEVELOPMENT OF THOSE REMEDIES: A REVIEW
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Pharmacy (IRJP) - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
At present times, Herbal remedies occupy an important position for being the paramount sources of drug discovery, irrespective of its categorized groups in which including herbs, Shrubs or trees. Plants have been indispensable in treating diverse form of diseases including cancer. Cancer is not just one disease but many diseases. There are more than 100 different types of cancer the plant based drug discovery resulted mainly in the development of anticancer agents including plants (vincristine, vinblastine, etoposide, paclitaxel, camptothecin, topotecan and irinotecan), marine organisms (citarabine, aplidine and dolastatin 10) and micro-organisms (dactinomycin, bleomycin and doxorubicin) and` tissue culture are the most important technique for the development of those remedies in short duration of time tissue culture are also useful to produce many copies in any time of the same plants then which may be used to produce plants with better flowers, odour’s, fruits or any other properties of the plants that is beneficial to the human beings
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Amita Pandey, Shalini Tripathi
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