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Dmitri O Levitsky1, Valery M Dembitsky
1Unité Fonctionalité et Ingénierie des Protéines (UFIP), Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes/CNRS, 44322, Nantes Cedex 03, France.
Abstract:
Upon emergence of modern anticancer therapy, medical community is divided into two opposite camps, one of them claiming absolute necessity of using isolated or synthesized chemical compounds for efficient patient treatment and another one advocating alternative cancer therapies, in particular those based on natural sources, including extracts from plants. It seems, in reality, that the two camps are reconcilable: while natural sources, plant extracts or juices play both curative and protective role, drugs represent the ultimate possibility to inhibit or reverse tumor development. In this paper we tried to analyze anti-breast cancer potencies of quite a few extracts from different plant sources and to compare their anti-proliferative efficiency of crude extracts with actions of their purified ingredients.
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