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SUBMITTER: Sivakumar G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5491623 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sivakumar Ganapathy G Alba Kamran K Phillips Gregory C GC
Frontiers in plant science 20170630
Colchicine is one of the oldest plant-based medicines used to treat gout and one of the most important alkaloid-based antimitotic drugs with anticancer potential, which is commercially extracted from <i>Gloriosa superba</i>. Clinical trials suggest that colchicine medication could prevent atrial fibrillation recurrence after cardiac surgery. In addition, therapeutic colchicine is undergoing clinical trials to treat non-diabetic metabolic syndrome and diabetic nephropathy. However, the industrial ...[more]