Autor(es): Costa, Margarida ; Leão, Pedro ; Ribeiro, Maria João ; Costa-Rodrigues, João ; Garcia, Mónica ; Barros, Piedade ; Fernandes, Helena ; Vasconcelos, Vítor ; Martins, Rosário
Data: 2012
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/25527
Origem: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
Assunto(s): Cyanobacteria; Therapeutic drugs
The marine environment possesses an unmeasured chemical and biological diversity, being considered an extraordinary resource for the discovery of new therapeutic drugs. Between others, marine cyanobacteria have emerged as a prominent source of bioactive secondary metabolites with a promising anticancer potential, as the described and intensively studied dolastatins.
