Proceedings, Volume 1, Issue 10

Resveratrol (3,5,4′-trihydroxystilbene) is a phytoalexin occurring in grapes, red wines, peanuts, berries and other vegetables that has been reported to provide protection against several human diseases, including metabolic diseases and cancer. More...

Herbal medicine has been used historically for anticancer effect and potent antiproliferative effects on different cancer cell lines. Prostate cancer has become the most common malignancy and the second highest cause of cancer death Western world. Th...

Prostate cancer is a growing health problem around the world. Although there are different therapeutic methods, none of them possessed complete efficacy up to now. Therefore, discovery of novel anti-cancer drugs is important. Bitter melon (Momordicac...

Cancer is an extensive and complicated family of malignancies that can affect virtually every part of the body. It is reported that over 1.2 million new cases are diagnosed every year. In most of the patients, meaningful clinical results cannot be ac...

Today, new agents are required to protect from cancer due to the side effects and some deficiencies in the medical drugs used to treat cancer. Because of this reason, active substances used in drugs which is herbal origin of the treatment of tumors a...

Malignant melanoma is significant problem for Caucasian population in the western countries. Mutations in BRAF gene in 60% of patients is responsible for developing resistance to BRAF inhibitors. Our results delineated the mechanism of resistance and...

Many papers have been written on the anticancer properties of dietary flavonoids, and a range of potential mechanisms of action of flavonoids. However, most dietary flavonoids - notably polyphenolic flavonoids—have very poor ADME properties, and the...

Most natural agents do not induce a high level of toxicity and target multiple signaling pathways involved in cell growth, invasion, apoptosis, angiogenesis and metastasis. Human infection with HCV is currently recognized as the leading cause of hepa...

Phytotherapy has been used for many years due to anticancer and anti-proliferative effects. In this study our purpose was to show the anti-proliferative and apoptotic effects of oleocanthal and pinus pinaster on MCF-7, MDA-MB-231, 67NR and 4T1 breast...

Achillea L. (Asteraceae) is a traditional medicinal herb which contains different phenol and flavonoid compounds that are responsible for Achillea pharmacological effects. Turkey is one of the most important centers of diversity for the genus Achille...

Onosma L. genus (Boraginaceae) comprises of 230 species that is represented by 102 species in the flora of Turkey with almost 50% endemism ratio (48 species), implying Anatolia as the gene center of Onosma species. In this study, we evaluated the pet...

Breast cancer today is the most frequent cancer among women, and the second most common cause of cancer deaths among women. The aim of this study was to synthesize a new benzoxazole derivative, scan it for anti-cancer potential by MTT test using diff...

Cardiac glycosides (CGs) were initially described as a cure for cardiovascular diseases. More recently a correlation between CG intake and anticancer activity was suggested, further validated by in vivo and in vitro preclinical research. Our recent f...

Many species of Psephellus and Centaurea genuses have pharmacological activities including antiinflamatory, antipyretic, cytotoxic etc. Psephellus pyrrhoblepharus (Boiss.) Wagenitz (Centaurea pyrrhoblephara), an endemic plant, was collected from Elaz...

Tocopherols, the major forms of vitamin E, are a family of fat-soluble phenolic compounds. Each tocopherol contains a chromanol ring system and a phytyl chain containing 16 carbons. Tocopherols, as effective antioxidants, have been proposed to protec...

The treatment of breast cancer includes chemotherapy, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Recently, alternative agents have been searched for breast cancer, especially medicinal plants because their anti-cancer effects. It has been reported that the genus...

Bioactive sphingolipids are a lipid family including ceramide, sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) and glucosyl ceramide (GC). Ceramide produced through de novo synthesis pathway (Serine Palmitoyl Transferase (SPT) is a key enzyme subjected to regulation)...

Plants are used as complementary and protective agents in the treatment of simple diseases as well as the severe diseases such as cancer. The plants in this poster are naturally grown in Turkey. Priority to plant selection has been given to past from...

Oxidative stress is related to many pathologies and diseases including diabetes, atherosclerosis and cancer. Increase or decrease of reactive oxygen species can affect disease progression and treatment. Hence, both the development and treatment of di...

There are many reasons that make the foods carcinogenic because of containing inorganic and organic molecules, such as nucleic acids, miRNA. Given the tumor suppressor or oncogenic effects of miRNAs, the dietary carcinogenic effect depends on the typ...

The plant and animal derived foods contain fats, carbohydrates, proteins and also nucleic acids, such as miRNA. miRNAs are well known the major players in cancer progression as tumor suppressors or oncogenes. Among many miRNAs, miR-193b was investiga...

Epibrassinolide (EBR) is a natural plant polyhydroxysteroid with structural similarity to steroid hormones. Lately we showed by SILAC assay that EBR treatment induces apoptosis by significantly altering the expressions of proteins having role in unfo...

Silymarin is from the seeds of S.marinaceous plant which is liver protective agent used in various diseases like cirrhosis, toxic chemicals, hepatitis. Previous researches have reported effects anti-inflammatory, antiapoptotic, anti-carcinogenic, ant...

Neuroblastoma cells have been used for antitumoral mechanisms such as stopping the cell cycle and inducing apoptosis. The genus of Lysimachia is studied to determine its anti-proliferative effect. The aim of this study is to show the cytotoxic effect...

Autocrine Growth Hormone (GH) induces cell growth, proliferation metastasis in breast cancer. Curcumin is a promising therapeutic agent in cancer through affecting different molecular targets. Our aim was to demonstrate the molecular machinery of cur...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of microtubule organization inhibitor Paclitaxel and natural standardized flavonoid extract from the bark of French maritime pine (pycnogenol) on mitochondrial dynamics in breast cancer cell lines...

5-FU is the main antimetabolite drug used in treating colon cancer. However, treatment success is only 10–15% due to drug resistance. To avoid resistance and improve treatment efficacy without increasing general toxicity, activity of combining curcum...

Cyclophosphamide (CP) is an effective drug widely used for treating clinical cancer and non-malignant diseases. However, using CP causes cytotoxicity in one or more tissues. The present study aims to investigate possible protective effects of Carvacr...

Alpha tocopherol is the most common and biologically active form of Vitamin E. The aim of this study was to evaulate the possible antiproliferative effect of alpha tocopherol on F-98 Glioblastoma cells. F-98 glioblastoma cell line was seeded at a den...

Prostate cancer (PC) is the most common epithelium-derived solid tissue cancer in males in developed countries. Lichen seconder metabolites have an important potential as new generation chemotherapeutics. Therefore, we evaluated the cytotoxic and apo...

Hepatocellular carcinoma is the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Ginnalin A (GA) is one of the most important phenolic compounds of maple syrup and its anticancer effect has been shown that in several cancer cell lines. In...

Therapeutic efficacy and low toxicity makes natural compounds important for anticancer studies. Cousinia, is one of the most diverse genera of Asteraceae family. There are 6 sections of this genus in Turkey. One of them is Stenocephalae Bunge. Sectio...

Deaths resulting from prostate cancer are due to metastases rather than primary tumor. Therefore, understanding metastatic mechanisms play a significant role. It has been determined that metastatic progression can be avoided by the voltage-gated sodi...

Nowadays, interest in studies of traditional medicine in the world has gradually increased due to its potential to complement modern medicine, there are many phoytotherapautic plants that are used for the herbal medicine. Neuroblastoma (NB), is an em...

Thanks to poor diagnosis and very limited treatment options, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) continues to lead the list of cancer-leading causes of death worldwide. Therefore, alternative therapy is crucial to control HCC. Our group has investigated t...

Aminoguanidine (AG) was presented more than 100 years ago. During the last 30 years important effects of AG have been discovered which have made this molecule attract a lot of interest. AG has anticancer effect on gastric cancer, and it has positive...

Cucurbitacin I is a natural component extracted from plants of the Cucurbitaceae family and has shown anti-cancer activity against various types of cancer. The aim of the present study was to investigate its antiproliferative and antimigratory effect...

Screening of plants plays a considerable role in the discovery of new biologically active compounds. In the past few decades, numerous useful antineoplastic drugs were discovered in higher plants by following up ethnomedicinal uses or as a result of...

Natural products obtained from plants have been used in the treatment of various diseases such as cancer since ancient times. Herbal medicine are the mixtures of therapeutic or preventive components, and so might have more activity than single purifi...

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancer type that affect the woman in worldwide. Paclitaxel is natural product and anticancer drug especially is used for treatment of ovarian, breast and lung cancer. Paclitaxel kills the cancer cells via DNA d...

The exploration of natural products is of importance because the management of cancer is still not satisfactory. Pristimerin is a naturally occurring triterpenoid that has been shown to suppress the proliferation of various cancer cell lines at relat...

Breast and colon cancers are a global health problem and they are responsible for causing a large number of deaths. Both of them rank among the most dangerous types of cancer. DLD-1, MDA-MB-231 and HEK 293T cells were cultured in DMEM medium suppleme...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ranks the sixth among common cancers in the world due to limited treatment option. In recent years, fungicides and lichen metabolites have gained importance in development of new generation chemotherapeutics. For this p...

Cancer is a very common disease between men and women in worldwide. Although many studies have been conducted to find effective anticancer drugs by researchers, this disease is not completely exterminated. [...]

Abstract: Flurbiprofen (FB) is one of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) which has low water solubility (1). In recent studies it is shown that NSAIDs tend to demonstrate chemopreventive activity and chemoprotective agents frequently s...

FASN is key enzyme during lipid biogenesis is associated with prostate cancer. In this study, we aim to investigate the potential role of celastrol, root extracts of Tripterygium wilfordii on modulation of lipid biosynthesis-associated PI3K/Akt signa...

Cancer cells are refractory to most forms of chemotherapy. Conventional and alternative drugs, such as herbal extracts, have been developed to target cancer cells. This study aims to test the cytotoxic effects of Pelargonium endlicherianum root extra...

Endometrial cancer is one of the most common cancer types among women in the world. In our study, it was aimed to investigate the potential anticancer effect of α-chaconine, which is one of the major glycoalkaloids found in Solanum tuberosum (potato)...

Cancer is a significant public health problem in both developed and developing countries. Phytotherapy studies have gained importance due to the side effect of standard cancer therapy protocols. Viburnum opulus, belongs to the Caprifoliaceae family,...

In this report we developed, for the first time, a novel plant extract–metal ions nanoflower (NFs) and investigate their cytotoxic properties. The major anthocyanins (Anth) of Red cabbage, acted as organic component and metal ions, copper (II) (Cu²⁺)...