Anticancer Activities and the Drug Targets of Botanical Saponins from a Medicinal Herb,Gynostemma Pentaphyllum

摘要：

Triterpenoid saponins are metabolites produced in most plant species through complex biosynthetic pathways.They play important roles to humans owing to their diverse medicinal effects,including antiinflammatory,antimicrobial,and anticancer activities.In our laboratory,the author have been investigating the anticancer activities of a mixture of triterpenoid saponins(designated GpMix)extracted from a medicinal plant,known as Jiao Gu Lan(Gynostemma pentaphyllum,绞股蓝)or southern ginseng in China.The key findings are summed up as following.

关键词： Neoplasms Second Primary Gynostemma Triterpenes

作者: W.L.Wendy HSIAO William Chi Shing TAI Ziyao MO Pui Kei WU

作者单位: School of Chinese Medicine,Hong Kong Baptist University,Hong Kong,P.R.China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 3rd Workshop on Scientific Approaches to Chinese Medicine(第三届中医科学研究方法研讨会)

会议地点: 安徽黄山

会议语种:英文

页码: 271-272

在线出版日期: 2008-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）