Coastal vegetationóan underexplored source of anticancer drugs

Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 115-119

  Kathiresan, K ^a   Sithranga Boopathy, N ^a   Kavitha, S ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Anticancer drugs; Coastal plants; Mangroves; Salt marsh; Sand dune

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940292213     PISSN: 09760504     EISSN: 09760512     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Jhonson NW, Epidemiology of oral cancer in risk markers oral disease. In: Oral cancer, NW Jhonson (Ed), Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 1991, Vol. 2, pp. 3-26.
2. Ito C, Katsuno S, Kondo Y, Tan HT and Furukawa H, Chemical constituents of Avicennia alba: Isolation and structural elucidation of new naphthoquinones and their analogues, Chem Pharm Bull, 2000, 48, 339-343.
3. Kathiresan K and Oswin SD, Vegetative growth of a sand binder Spinifex littoreus, J Annamalai Univ, 1997, 38, 37-40.
4. Bandaranayake WM, Bioactivities: Bioactive compounds and chemical constituents of mangrove plants, Wetl Ecol Manage, 2002, 10, 421-452.
5. Bandaranayake WM, Traditional medicinal uses of mangroves: Mangrove and Salt marshes, Wetl Ecol Manage, 1998, 2, 133-148.
6. Kathiresan K, A review of studies on Pichavaram mangrove, southeast India, Hydrobiologia, 2000, 430, 185-205.
7. Premanathan M, Chandra K, Bajpai SK and Kathiresan K, A survey of Indian marine plants for antiviral activity, Bot Mar, 1992, 35, 31-34.
8. Premanathan M, Kathiresan K, Yamamoto N and Nakashima H, In vitro anti-human immunodeficiency virus activity of polysaccharide from Rhizophora mucronata Poir., Biol Biotechnol Biochem, 1999, 63, 1187-1191.
9. Sakagami H, Kashimata M, Toguchi M, Satoh K, Odanaka Y, Ida Y, Premanathan M, Arakaki R, Kathiresan K, Nakashima H, Komatsu N, Fujimaki M and Yoshihara M, Radical modulation activity of lignins from a mangrove plant, Ceriops decandra (Griff.) Ding Hou, In Vivo, 1998, 12, 327-332.
10. Loder JW and Russell GB, Tumour inhibitory plants: The alkaloids of Bruguiera sexangula and B. exaristata (Rhizophoraceae), Aust J Chem, 1969, 22, 1271-1275.
11. Wright WG and Warren FL, Rhizophoraceae alkaloids, part 1: Four sulphur-containing bases from Cassipourea spp, J Chem Soc [Perkin 1], 1967, 4, 283-284.
12. Kapil AS, Sharma S and Wahidulla S, Leishmanicidal activity of 2-Benzoaxozolinone from Acanthus illicifolius, in vitro, Planta Med, 1994, 60, 187-188.
13. Kokpol U, Chittawong V and Miles DH, Chemical constituents of the roots of Acanthus illicifolius, J Nat Prod, 1984, 49, 355-357.
14. Minocha PK and Tiwari KP, A triterpenoidal saponin from roots of Acanthus illicifolius, Phytochemistry, 1981, 20, 135-137.
15. Tanaka T, Iinuma M, Yuki K, Fujii Y and Mizuno M, Two new beta-hydroxy chalcone from the root bark of Pongamia pinnata, Chem Pharm Bull, 1991, 39, 1473-1475.
16. Tanaka T, Iinuma M, Yuki K, Fujii Y and Mizuno M, Flavonoids in root bark of Pongamia pinnata, Phytochemistry, 1992, 31, 993-998.
17. Jong TT and Chau SW, Antioxidative activities of constituents isolated from Pandanus odoratissimus, Phytochemistry, 1998, 49, 2145-2148.
18. Hirazumi A and Furusawa E, An immunomodulatory polysacchride-rich substance from the fruit juice of Morinda citrifolia (Noni) with antitumour activity, Phytother Res, 1999, 13, 380-387.
19. Goh SH and Jantan I, A xanthon from Calophyllum inophyllum, Phytochemistry, 1991, 30, 366-367.
20. Munro MGH, Blunt JW, Dumdei EJ, Hickford SJH, Lill RE, Li S, Battershill CN and Duckworth AR, The discovery and development of marine compounds with pharmaceutical potential, J Biotechnol, 1999, 70, 15-25.
21. Iinuma M, Tosa H, Tanaka T and Yonemori S, Two new xanthones in the underground part of Calophyllum inophyllum, Heterocycles, 1994, 37, 833-838.
22. Pascoe KO, Burke BA and Chan WR, Caesalpine F: A new furanoditerpene from Caesalpinia bonducella, J Nat Prod, 1986, 49, 913-915.
23. Masuda T, Yonemori S, Oyama Y, Takeda Y, Tanaka T, Andoh T, Shinohara A and Nakata M, Evolution of antioxidant activity of environmental plants: Activity of the extracts from seashore plants, J Agric Food Chem, 1999, 47, 1749-1754.
24. Ghosal S and Dutta SK, Alkaloids of Abrus precatorius, Phytochemistry, 1971, 10,195.
25. Lalithakumari H, Subba Reddy VV, Rao Ramenenda G and Sirsi M, Purification of proteins from Abrus precatorius and their biological properties, Indian J Biochem Biophys, 1971, 8, 321.