From Medicinal Plants to Bioactive Drugs
Ilaria Lampronti, Mahmud T.H. Khan, Antoine M. Saab, Elisabetta Lambert, Letizia Penolazzi, Roberta Piva and Roberto Gambari,
University of Ferrara, University of Sciences and Technology of Chittagong, Lebanese University
Date Posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Aim
Officinal plants represent an important source of medicinal products for more that 80% of the world’s population, especially in developing countries. The interest for medicinal plants and for their biologically active derivatives has increased in recent years, in relation to the possible development of novel potential drugs.
The aim of our study was to analyze the antiproliferative activity effects on human tumor cell lines and the differentiating activity on human erythroleukemic K562 cells of different extracts derived from medicinal plants of Bangladesh and Lebanon.
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