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Cytotoxic Potencial Acetogenins ofAnnonaGenus

Diego CortesMaria Raquel Garcia VegaMilton M. KanashiroMarina M. Paes

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Human tumorbiologyTraditional medicineFAMILY ANNONACEAEPhytochemicalAnnonaceaeIn vitro cytotoxicityCytotoxic potencyGeneral ChemistryAnnonabiology.organism_classificationHuman cancer

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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 Annonaceae family, genus Annona is in which is recorded the highest number of these substances. In order to identify the therapeutic potential and future directions for research, the purpose of this review is to provide data pertaining to the studies of cytotoxicity in vitro in cell lines of human cancer of isolated ACGs of Annona species in the period between 1989 and 2012 as well as basic information regarding the phytochemical studies of the same. DOI: 10.5935/1984-6835.20160068

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2016-01-01Revista Virtual de Química
https://doi.org/10.5935/1984-6835.20160068