This review provides a recent perspective of artesunate and other artemisinins as
antimalarial drugs and their uses in cancer therapy. Artesunate is an artemisinin derivative …

Medicinal plants remain a valuable source for natural drug bioprospecting owing to their
multi-target spectrum. However, their use as raw materials for novel drug synthesis has been …

The Wnt/β-catenin signaling is a conserved pathway that has a crucial role in embryonic and
adult life. Dysregulation of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway has been associated with diseases …

Dendrobium officinale Kimura et Migo is a precious traditional Chinese medicine. Despite D.
officinale displaying a good salt-tolerance level, the yield and growth of D. officinale were …

The biological activity of organic peroxides is usually associated with the antimalarial
properties of artemisinin and its derivatives. However, the analysis of published data …

Artemisinin is a secondary metabolite extracted from Artemisia annua. As an effective
antimalarial component certified by WHO, artemisinin has extensive economical values …

UV-B radiation is a pivotal photomorphogenic signal and positively regulates plant growth
and metabolite biosynthesis. In order to elucidate the transcriptional regulation mechanism …

Malaria is a real and constant danger to nearly half of the world's population of 7.4 billion
people. In 2015, 212 million cases were reported along with 429,000 estimated deaths. The …

Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) forms the frontline treatment of malaria.
Artemisinin, an endoperoxide sesquiterpenoid lactone biosynthesized by Artemisia annua …

In the last few decades, utilization of medicinal plants by the pharmaceutical industry has led
to the identification of many new bioactive compounds. The genus Pterodon, native of the …