Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-0412
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2167-0412
+44 1300 500008
Hawa Z E Jaafar
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Med Aromat Plants
Phytochemicals derived from plant sources such as phenolics, flavonoids, alkaloids, saponin, tannin and lignin are promoted for the prevention and treatment of many health conditions, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Recent scientific attention has been directed towards the cancer preventive potential for naturally occurring constituents of antioxidant, vitamins, flavanoids, glucosinolates and organo-sulfur compounds that have anti-carcinogenic or antioxidant potential. Plant products are regarded as potential chemo-preventive agents acts to block, reverse or prevent the development of invasive cancers. As plants are generally very responsive to biotic and abiotic factors in altering their physiological, biochemical and morphological properties, exposing herbal plants to elicitors may induce, alter or enhance synthesis of secondary metabolites. Recent work on the use from elicited local herb bio-fluids in the alleviation of chemo-toxicity effect demonstrated enhanced protective nature of elicited L. pumila, especially on white blood cell and organ weight, and with greater anti-tumor activity in comparison to CPT-11 drugstreated BDF-1 mice.
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