- Title
- Selected Australian flora as potential sources of anti-cancer agents
- Creator
- Vuong, Quong V.; Scarlett, Chrisopher J.
- Relation
- Plant Bioactive Compounds for Pancreatic Cancer Prevention and Treatment p. 195-217
- Relation
- https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=52138{5}10&osCsid=
- Publisher
- Nova Science
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Australia is a unique and diverse country, in both geography and climate, with significantly diversified plant materials. For thousands of years, indigenous Australians used the Australian flora for traditional medicines for the treatment of numerous ailments indicating that specific Australian flora may possess key bioactive compounds with potent health promoting properties. Recently, investigators have identified bioactive compounds within Australian plant materials, and several studies have linked their extracts and isolated compounds with the prevention or treatment of cancers, including pancreatic cancer. This chapter outlines the use of Australian flora as traditional medicines, discusses the composition and anti-cancer properties from selected Australian plants and proposes a trend for future studies of their purported health, and anti-cancer benefits.
- Subject
- Australian flora; Australian native flowers; medicinal plants; anti-cancer benefits
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1334586
- Identifier
- uon:27328
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781634633246
- Language
- eng
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