Drug Discovery for Cancer Treatment form Sudanese Medicinal Plants

Cancer has been regarded mainly as a group of diseases afflicting the more developed countries; the incidence of various forms of cancer is now rapidly rising worldwide. It was estimated that there were 10.9 million new cases, 6.7 million deaths, and 24.6 million persons living with cancer around the world. Many of the plant materials used in traditional medicine because it's readily available in rural areas at relatively cheaper than modern medicine. Indeed, Plants generally produce many secondary metabolites which constitute an important source of microbicides, pesticides and many pharmaceutical drugs. Plant products still remain the principal source of pharmaceutical agents used in traditional medicine. In this book you can find in details techniques for plants extraction, in vitro anticancer activity, Cytotoxicity on normal cell lines, antioxidant activity, antimicrobial activity, Toxicity testing against the brine shrimp and primary phytochemical screening method. This book is useful for students studying Pharmacology and Applied Sciences also for researchers around the world concerning with drug discovery for cancer treatment from natural sources.

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Dr. Ehssan .H.O. Moglad is assistant professor of Medical Microbiology at El Neelain University and at The National Center for Research,Sudan.She obtained her PhD.in 2014. She awarded many prizes, published many papers and she has presented a research papers in many conferences. Her current research interest in Drug discovery from natural product.