Anticancer agent-based marine natural products and related compounds |
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| Authors: | Jian-Wei Chen Qi-Hao Wu David C. Rowley Ammar M.Q. Al-Kareef |
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| Affiliation: | 1. College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou310014, P.R. China;2. College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, 7 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, RI 02881, USA |
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| Abstract: | Marine natural products constitute a huge reservoir of anticancer agents. Consequently during the past decades, several marine anticancer compounds have been isolated, identified, and approved for anticancer treatment or are under trials. In this article the sources, structure, bioactivities, mode of actions, and analogs of some promising marine and derived anticancer compounds have been discussed. |
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| Keywords: | marine natural products anticancer drugs bioactivities mode of actions analogs |
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