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Anticancer activity of essential oils and their chemical components - a review.

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Essential oils are widely used in pharmaceutical, sanitary, cosmetic, agriculture and food industries for their bactericidal, virucidal, fungicidal, antiparasitical and insecticidal properties. Their anticancer activity is well documented. Over a hundred essential oils from more than twenty plant families have been tested on more than twenty types of cancers in last past ten years. This review is focused on the activity of essential oils and their components on various types of cancers. For some of them the mechanisms involved in their anticancer activities have been carried out.

Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)

Authors: Bagora Bayala, Imaël Hn Bassole, Riccardo Scifo, Charlemagne Gnoula, Laurent Morel, Jean-Marc A Lobaccaro, Jacques Simpore

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Inserm, Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine d'Auvergne, Institut Génétique, Reproduction et Développement, Université Blaise Pascal

Language: English

Topic: Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity

Subfield: Food Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1557730305

FWCI: 13.64

Cites: 112

Cited by: 184

Related to: 10