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SUBMITTER: Bailon-Moscoso N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4550445 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bailon-Moscoso Natalia N González-Arévalo Gabriela G Velásquez-Rojas Gabriela G Malagon Omar O Vidari Giovanni G Zentella-Dehesa Alejandro A Ratovitski Edward A EA Ostrosky-Wegman Patricia P
PloS one 20150826 8
Accumulating evidence supports the idea that secondary metabolites obtained from medicinal plants (phytometabolites) may be important contributors in the development of new chemotherapeutic agents to reduce the occurrence or recurrence of cancer. Our study focused on Dehydroleucodine (DhL), a sesquiterpene found in the provinces of Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe. In this study, we showed that DhL displayed cytostatic and cytotoxic activities on the human cerebral astrocytoma D384 cell line. With lact ...[more]