Saxifraga aizoides extract: novel potential effects on tumor cell models

Since ancient time nature has been used as the main source of herbal medicines. Even today many drugs derive or are elaborated from environmental flora. Of note natural products are fundamental sources of new anticancer drugs. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world and the fight ag...

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Published in:Research Ideas and Outcomes
Main Author: Pezzani, Raffaele
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2016
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.2.e9632
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Summary:Since ancient time nature has been used as the main source of herbal medicines. Even today many drugs derive or are elaborated from environmental flora. Of note natural products are fundamental sources of new anticancer drugs. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world and the fight against it still open and need every possible resources, including herbal product, which should be scientifically and deeply studied. Saxifraga aizoides extract (SAE) has been never tested in preclinical tumor cell models.