Saponins: The potential chemotherapeutic agents in pursuing new anti-glioblastoma drugs

Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1709-1724

  Tian, Xiangrong ^a,b   Tang, Haifeng ^a,c   Lin, Houwen ^d   Cheng, Guang ^c   Wang, Siwang ^a   Zhang, Xing ^b  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anti glioblastoma drugs; Chemotherapeutic agents; Interstitial chemotherapy; Marine organisms; Saponins; Terrestrial plants

Indexed keywords

AGLYCONE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ARDIPUSILLOSIDE I; ARDIPUSILLOSIDE III; ARDIPUSILLOSIDE IV; ARDIPUSILLOSIDE V; ARGUSIDE F; ASTEROSAPONIN; CUCURBITANE; DAMMARANE DERIVATIVE; FUSCOCINEROSIDE; GINSENOSIDE; GLYCOSIDE; HEDERAGENIN; HOLOTHURIN; IMPATIENSIDE B; MACRANTHOSIDE B; PANAXSAPONIN; PERVICOSIDE; PERVICOSIDE D; PHILINOPSIDE A; PHILINOPSIDE B; POLYHYDROXYSTEROIDAL GLYCOSIDE; SAPONIN DERIVATIVE; TRITERPENE DERIVATIVE; TRITERPENOID; TUBEIMOSIDE I; TUBEIMOSIDE V; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VIOLACEUSIDE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CYTOTOXICITY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HOLOTHURIA; HUMAN; IC 50; MARINE SPECIES; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; SEA CUCUMBER; STARFISH; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; PLANTS; SAPONINS; STEROIDS; TRITERPENES;

EID: 84888051883     PISSN: 13895575     EISSN: 18755607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/13895575113136660083     Document Type: Article

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