Artemisinin–Second Career as Anticancer Drug?

Artemisinin–Second Career as Anticancer Drug?

Artemisinin represents a showcase example not only for the activity of medicinal herbs deriving from traditional chinese medicine, but for phytotherapy in general. Its isolation from Sweet Wormwood (qinhao, Artemisia annua L.) represents the starting point for an unprecedent success story in the tre...

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Main Author:	Thomas Efferth
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2015-10-01
Series:	World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Subjects:	Artemisia annua Artemisinin Cancer Chemotherapy Qinhaosu Malaria Phytotherapy
Online Access:	http://www.wjtcm.org:8080/ch/reader/create_pdf.aspx?file_no=20150036&year_id=2015&quarter_id=1&flag=1

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