Pharmacognosy and Natural Products

Plant-derived substances have played an important role in the development of several clinically useful anti-cancer agents. Cancer is abnormal growth of cells. The natural products are therapeutically utilized as anticancer agents. Natural products Hamigerone and Radicinol, isolated from fungi by bioassay-guided procedure, it have ant-proliferative and proapoptotic properties that is effective on cancer cell without affecting of normal cells.