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ReviewBiomolecules2021

The Most Competent Plant-Derived Natural Products for Targeting Apoptosis in Cancer Therapy.

Sadegh Rajabi, Marc Maresca, Alexei Valerievich Yumashev, Rasool Choopani, Homa Hajimehdipoor

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Review in Biomolecules, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sadegh RajabiTraditional Medicine and Materia Medica Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 1434875451, Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-0177-7922
Marc MarescaAix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, iSm2, 13397 Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0002-3585-4765
Alexei Valerievich YumashevDepartment of Prosthetic Dentistry, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
Rasool ChoopaniTraditional Medicine and Materia Medica Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 1434875451, Iran.
Homa HajimehdipoorTraditional Medicine and Materia Medica Research Center and Department of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 1516745811, Iran.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is a challenging problem for the global health community, and its increasing burden necessitates seeking novel and alternative therapies. Most cancers share six basic characteristics known as "cancer hallmarks", including uncontrolled proliferation, refractoriness to proliferation blockers, escaping apoptosis, unlimited proliferation, enhanced angiogenesis, and metastatic spread. Apoptosis, as one of the best-known programmed cell death processes, is generally promoted through two signaling pathways, including the intrinsic and extrinsic cascades. These pathways comprise several components that their alterations can render an apoptosis-resistance phenotype to the cell. Therefore, targeting more than one molecule in apoptotic pathways can be a novel and efficient approach for both identifying new anticancer therapeutics and preventing resistance to therapy. The main purpose of this review is to summarize data showing that various plant extracts and plant-derived molecules can activate both intrinsic and extrinsic apoptosis pathways in human cancer cells, making them attractive candidates in cancer treatment.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic Agents, PhytogenicApoptosisBiological ProductsCell ProliferationHumansNeoplasmsPhytochemicalsPlant ExtractsPlantsAntineoplastic Agents, PhytogenicBiological ProductsPhytochemicalsPlant Extractsapoptosiscancermedicinal herbphytochemicalplant extracts

Identifiers

PMID33916780
PMCPMC8066452

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