Marine source drugs anticancer

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MNPs, which have been used as template to develop therapeutic drugs. MNPs isolated from invertebrates have shown wide range of therapeutic properties including antimicrobial, antioxidant, antihypertensive, anticoagulant, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, wound healing and immune modulator, and other medicinal effects.Therefore, marine invertebrates are rich sources of chemical diversity and health benefits for developing drug candidates, cosmetics, nutritional supplements, and molecular probes that can be supported to increase the healthy life span of human. 

Marine life can also be a rich source of medicinal material. For example, C-nucleosides spongouridine and spongothymidine isolated from the Caribbean sponge Cryptotheca crypta possess antiviral activity. Synthetic analogues led to the development of cytosine arabinoside, a useful anticancer drug. Microbes also provide extremely useful medicines, the most famous case being penicillin... 

Tan LT. Filamentous tropical marine cyanobacteria A rich source of natural products for anticancer drugs. / Appl Phycol 2010 22 659-76. 

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