Therapeutic potential of snake venom in cancer therapy:current perspectives

作     者：Vivek Kumar Vyas Keyur Brahmbhatt Hardik Bhatt Utsav Parmar 

作者机构：Institute of PharmacyNirma UniversityAhmadabad 382481GujaratIndia Arihant School of Pharmacy and Bio Research Institute 

出 版 物：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine》 (亚太热带生物医学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第3卷第2期

页      面：156-162页

学科分类：1006[医学-中西医结合] 100602[医学-中西医结合临床] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Snake venom Cytotoxin Anticancer agents Apoptosis inducer 

摘      要：Many active secretions produced by animals have been employed in the development of new drugs to treat diseases such as hypertension and *** venom toxins coutributed significantly to the treatment of many medical *** are many published studies describing and elucidating the anti-cancer potential of snake *** therapy is one of the main areas for the use of protein peptides and enzymes originating from animals of different *** of these proteins or peptides and enzymes from snake venom when isolated and evaluated may bind specifically to cancer cell membranes,affecting the migration and proliferation of these *** of substances found in the snake venom present a great potential as anti-tumor *** this review,we presented the main results of recent years of research involving the active compounds of snake venom that have anticancer activity.