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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153181903321

Autore

Xu Jun-Ping

Titolo

Cancer inhibitors from Chinese natural medicines / / Jun-Ping Xu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-315-34923-X

1-315-36675-4

1-4987-8766-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (788 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

616.99/405

Soggetti

Cancer - Prevention

Medicine, Chinese

Herbs - Therapeutic use

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

1. Anticancer activities of exogenous pathogenic factor-eliminating herbs -- 2. Anticancer potentials of antipyretic herbs -- 3. Anticancer potentials of antirheumatics plant herbs -- 4. Anticancer potentials of internal cold-dispelling herbs -- 5. Anticancer potentials of vital energy-regulating herbs -- 6. Anticancer potentials of blood-activating and stasis-resolving herbs -- 7. Anticancer potentials of hemostatic herbs -- 8. Anticancer potentials of expectorant, antitussive, and antiasthmatic herbs -- 9. Anticancer potentials of tonic herbs -- 10. Anticancer potentials of purgative and diuretic herbs -- 11. Anticancer potentials of hard lump-resolving and swelling-reducing herbs -- 12. Anticancer agents from antispasmodic chinese herbs -- 13. Anticancer potentials of anthelmintic herbs -- 14. Anticancer potentials of other herbs.

Sommario/riassunto

Nature is an attractive source of therapeutic compounds and with such chemical diversity found in millions of species of plants, over 60% of currently used anticancer agents are derived from natural sources. This volume summarizes advances in the experimental and clinical research of a selection of promising cancer inhibitors. It focuses on the latest



scientific investigations of 240 Chinese herbs and discusses important aspects including the types of inhibitors in the herbs, level of potency, mechanisms, and the advances in modification and formulation. --