Peer Review Report For: Pro-oxidant activity of dietary chemopreventive agents: an under-appreciated anti-cancer property [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
Year: 2013
Type: peer-review
Abstract: “ Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food ” was quoted by Hippocrates more than two thousand years ago and since ancient times the health benefits of different natural agents have been exploited. In modern research, the disease preventive benefits of many such natural agents, particularly dietary compounds and their derivatives, has been attributed to their well recognized activity as the regulators of redox state of the cell. Nevertheless, most of these studies have focused on their antioxidant activity. A large body of evidence indicates that a major fraction of these agents can elicit pro-oxidant (radical generating) behavior which has been linked to their anti-cancer effects. This editorial provides an overview of the under-appreciated pro-oxidant activity of natural products, with a special focus on their ability to generate reactive oxygen species in the presence of transition metal ions, and discusses their possible use as cancer chemotherapeutic agents.
Authors: Asfar S Azmi, Fazlul H Sarkar, SM Hadi
Language: English
Subfield: Biochemistry
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4416601259
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