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JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
Volume 69, Issue 3, Pages 488-498Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/np0581216
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While effective treatments exist for acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), particularly in the case of children, and for chronic mylogenous leukemia (CML), more efficacious treatments for other forms of acute and chronic forms of the disease are still needed. The National Cancer Institute has tested over 90 000 extracts of terrestrial plants and marine plants and invertebrates in its human cancer one-dose/60-cell-line prescreen, and the results for plants and marine organisms meeting criteria established for activity against selected leukemia cell lines are presented. Taxonomic data are limited to family and genus in the case of plants, and phylum for marine organisms, and those groups of organisms exhibiting significant activity (so-called hot families and genera) are discussed. The hot terrestrial plant families Myrsinaceae and Sapindaceae have not been studied to any extent and appear to merit special attention, although leukemia cell line selectivity is also noted for other families.
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