Citotoxicity of marine cyanobacteria from the portuguese coast agains breast cancer cells

• Author(s): Costa, Margarida ; Leão, Pedro ; Ribeiro, Maria João ; Costa-Rodrigues, João ; Garcia, Mónica ; Barros, Piedade ; Fernandes, Helena ; Vasconcelos, Vítor ; Martins, Rosário
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/25527
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Cyanobacteria; Therapeutic drugs
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): REPOSITÓRIO P.PORTO

Description

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.