Fabiola Domínguez, Paola Maycotte, Adilene Acosta-Casique, Sofía Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Diego A Moreno, Federico Ferreres, Juan Carlos Flores-Alonso, María Guadalupe Delgado-López, Martín Pérez-Santos, Maricruz Anaya-Ruiz
Plants from the Bursera genus are widely distributed in the tropical dry forests of Mexico. In traditional medicine, extracts from different species of Bursera have been used for a wide range of biological activities, including the treatment of cancer-related symptoms. Compounds present in the Bursera genus include lignans, flavonoids, steroids, short-chain aliphatic alkanes, acetates, alcohols, ketones, and terpenoids. In some instances, secondary metabolites of these classes of compounds may induce cytotoxicity, and therefore we sought to investigate the effects of B...
April 1, 2018: Integrative Cancer Therapies