Scorpion venoms in gastric cancer

Venom secretions from snakes, scorpions, spiders and bees, have been widely applied in traditional medicine and current biopharmaceutical research. Possession of anticancer potential is another novel discovery for animal venoms and toxins. An increasing number of studies have shown the anticancer effects of venoms and toxins of snakes, and scorpions in vitro and in vivo, which were achieved mainly through the inhibition of cancer growth, arrest of cell cycle, induction of apoptosis and suppression of cancer metastasis. However, more evidence is needed to support this concept and the mechanisms of anticancer actions are not clearly understood. The present review is focused on the recant updates on anticancer venom research.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Oncology Letters

• Publication date

  2016-09-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3892/ol.2016.5134PMID 27900054PMCID 5104148
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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