ARTICLE
Anticancer activity of essential oils and their chemical components - a review
- Am J Cancer Res , 4 (6) : 591-607
Discipline :
Sciences biologiques
Auteur(s) :
Bagora Bayala , Imaël HN Bassole , Riccardo Scifo , Charlemagne Gnoula , Laurent Morel , Jean-Marc A Lobaccaro , Jacques Simpore
Auteur(s) tagués :
BASSOLE Imaël Henri Nestor
Renseignée par : BASSOLE Imaël Henri Nestor
Résumé
Essential oils are widely used in pharmaceutical, sanitary, cosmetic, agriculture and food industries for their bactericidal, virucidal, fungicidal, antiparasitical and insecticidal properties. Their anticancer activity is well documented. Over a hundred essential oils from more than twenty plant families have been tested on more than twenty types of cancers in last past ten years. This review is focused on the activity of essential oils and their components on various types of cancers. For some of them the mechanisms involved in their anticancer activities have been carried out.
Mots-clés
Essential oils, anticancer activity