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Bagora Bayala1, Imaël Hn Bassole2, Riccardo Scifo3
1Centre de Recherche Biomoléculaire Pietro Annigoni, Saint Camille-CERBA/LABIOGENE-Ouagadougou, Université de Ouagadougou 03 BP 7021 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso ; Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, Génétique Reproduction et Développement F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France ; CNRS, UMR 6293, GReD F-63177 Aubière, France ; INSERM, UMR 1103, GReD F-63177 Aubière, France ; Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine d'Auvergne F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Abstract:
Essential oils are widely used in pharmaceutical, sanitary, cosmetic, agriculture and food industries for their bactericidal, virucidal, fungicidal, antiparasitical and insecticidal properties. Their anticancer activity is well documented. Over a hundred essential oils from more than twenty plant families have been tested on more than twenty types of cancers in last past ten years. This review is focused on the activity of essential oils and their components on various types of cancers. For some of them the mechanisms involved in their anticancer activities have been carried out.
