Plantas Medicinales: una fuente valiosa de compuestos farmacológicos para el tratamiento del cáncer

Karla Araceli  Silva Ramírez; Alan Misael  Estrada Alonso; Jazmin Marlen Pérez-Rojas

doi:10.35830/mcya.vi25.576

Authors

Karla Araceli Silva Ramírez Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías, Universidad de Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Alan Misael Estrada Alonso Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías, Universidad de Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Jalisco, México; Laboratorio de Investigación Biomédica en Cáncer, Subdirección de Investigación Básica, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología. Ciudad de México, México.
Jazmin Marlen Pérez-Rojas National Institute of Cancer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35830/mcya.vi25.576

Keywords:

Cancer, plants, compounds

Abstract

Cancer is the third leading cause of death in our country and despite major advances in the treatment of this disease, there are still many patients whose therapies fail. Therefore, cancer remains one of the most serious diseases and one of the greatest challenges to human health worldwide. For this reason, there is a constant need to develop new effective and accessible antineoplastic drugs. Medicinal plants have been used for centuries for medical purposes and are the basis of modern medicine. Many chemotherapeutic drugs used to treat cancer are molecules isolated from medicinal plants or their synthetic derivatives. Therefore, natural product research offers enormous potential to provide useful information on new chemical structures and possible new mechanisms of action related to the development of new drugs.

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