Anticancer Activity of Sea Cucumber Triterpene Glycosides

Anticancer Activity of Sea Cucumber Triterpene Glycosides

Triterpene glycosides are characteristic secondary metabolites of sea cucumbers (Holothurioidea, Echinodermata). They have hemolytic, cytotoxic, antifungal, and other biological activities caused by membranotropic action. These natural products suppress the proliferation of various human tumor cell...

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Main Authors: Dmitry L. Aminin, Ekaterina S. Menchinskaya, Evgeny A. Pisliagin, Alexandra S. Silchenko, Sergey A. Avilov, Vladimir I. Kalinin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-03-01
Series:Marine Drugs
Subjects:
triterpene glycosides
sea cucumbers
antitumor activities
apoptosis
arrest of cell cycle
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/13/3/1202

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