Cytotoxic Potencial Acetogenins ofAnnonaGenus

2016

Over the centuries, nature has contributed to the basic needs of human beings. In particular, plants have cooperated as a source of drugs for the treatment of a broad spectrum of diseases because of the structural diversity of secondary metabolites. With strict attention to antineoplastic therapy, the search for anticancer drugs has increased in order to meet more specific and selective treatments. The acetogenins (ACGs), a class of secondary metabolites found exclusively in the family Annonaceae, are substances of great importance due to their well-known cytotoxic potency in human tumor cell lines in vitro , which can be exploited in designing anticancer agents. Among the 150 genera of Ann…