900
Views
12
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Screening for Anticancer Agents from Sonoran Desert Plants:A Chemical Ecology Approach

&
Pages 478-487 | Published online: 16 Dec 2009

References

  • Axt JR, Corn ML. 1993, Biotechnology, Indigenous Peoples, and Intellectual Property Rights. Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, April 16, 1993, Reel #10.
  • Balandrin MF, Kinghorn AD, Farnsworth NR. 1993. Plant-derived natural products in drug discovery and development. Kinghorn AD, Balandrin MF. Human Medicinal Agents From Plants. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2–12
  • Balogh MP. 1997. Advancing phytochemical development: Characterization of plant extract isoflavonoids using LC-MS. LC-GC. 15: 456–466
  • Berenbaum MR. 1995. The chemistry of defense: Theory and practice. Proc the Natl Acad Sci USA. 92: 2–8
  • Borris RP. 1996. Natural products research: Perspectives from a major pharmaceutical company. J Ethnopharmacol. 51: 29–38. [PUBMED], [INFOTRIEVE], [CSA], [CROSSREF]
  • Bryant JP, Chapin FS, Klein DR. 1983. Carbon/nutrient balance of boreal plants in relation to vertebrate herbivory. Oikos. 40: 357–368
  • Capson TL, Coley PD, Kursar TA. 1996. A new paradigm for drug discovery in tropical forests. Nature Biotech. 14: 1200–1202. [CSA], [CROSSREF]
  • Cates RG. 1980. Feeding patterns of monophagous, oligophagous, and polyphagous insect herbivores: The effect of resource abundance and plant chemistry. Oecologia. 46: 22–31. [CROSSREF]
  • Cates RG. 1981. Host plant predictability and the feeding patterns of monophagous, oligophagous, and polyphagous insect herbivores. Oecologia. 48: 319–326. [CROSSREF]
  • Cates RG. 1996. The role of mixtures and variation in the production of terpenoids in conifer-insect-pathogen interactions. Rec Adv Phytochem. 30: 179–216
  • Cates RG, McElroy DC. 1987. Secondary chemistry among sympatric species and its relationship to insect herbivory. Proceedings: Symposium of Plant-Herbivore Interactions. USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, General Technical Report, Ogden, UT, INT-222.
  • Cates RG, Rhoades DF. 1977. Patterns in the production of antiherbivore chemical defenses in plant communities. Biochem Sys Eco. 5: 185–193. [CROSSREF]
  • Chew FS, Courtney SP. 1991. Plant apparency and evolutionary escape from insect herbivory. Am Nat. 138: 729–750. [CSA], [CROSSREF]
  • Coley PD, Bryant JP, Chapin S, III. 1985. Resource availability and plant antiherbivore defense. Science. 230: 895–899
  • Cox PA, Balick MJ. 1994. The ethnobotanical approach to drug discovery. Sci Am. 270: 82–87. [PUBMED], [INFOTRIEVE]
  • Cragg GM, Boyd MR, Cardellina JH, II, Grever MR, Schepartz SA, Snader KM, Suffness M. 1993. Role of plants in the National Cancer Institute drug discovery and development program. Kinghorn AD, Balandrin MF. Human Medicinal Agents From Plants. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 80–93
  • Cragg GM, Newman DJ, Snader KM. 1997. Natural products in drug discovery and development. J Nat Prod. 60: 52–60. [PUBMED], [INFOTRIEVE], [CSA], [CROSSREF]
  • Farnsworth NR. 1988. Screening plants for new medicines. Wilson EO. Biodiversity. Washington, DC, National Academy Press83–97
  • Farnsworth NR, Soejarto DD. 1991. Global importance of medicinal plants. Akerele O, Heywood V, Synge H. Conservation of Medicinal Plants. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press. 25–51
  • Feeny P. 1976. Plant apparency and chemical defense. Rec Adv Phytochem. 10: 1–40
  • Hamilton JG, Zangerl AR, Delucia EH, Berenbaum MR. 2001. The carbon-nutrient balance hypothesis: Its rise and fall. Ecol Lett. 4: 86–95. [CSA], [CROSSREF]
  • Herms DA, Mattson WJ. 1992. The dilemma of plants: To grow or defend. Q Rev Biol. 67: 283–333. [CSA], [CROSSREF]
  • Kitakata OT. 1999. Novel aspects of tannins—Renewed concepts and structure-activity relationships. Curr Org Chem. 3: 609–622. [CSA]
  • Kursar TA, Capson TL, Coley PD, Gupta MB, Harrison LA, Ortega-Barria E, Windsor DM. 1999. Ecologically guided bioprospecting in Panama. Pharm Biol. 37: 114–126
  • Lerdau M, Litvak M, Monson R. 1994. Plant chemical defense: Monoterpenes and the growth-differentiation balance hypothesis. Tree. 9: 59–61
  • McCutcheon AR, Ellis SM, Hancock REW, Towers GHN. 1992. Antibiotic screening of medicinal plants of the British Columbian native peoples. J Ethnopharmacol. 37: 213–223. [PUBMED], [INFOTRIEVE], [CROSSREF]
  • McCutcheon AR, Ellis SM, Hancock REW, Towers GHN. 1994. Antifungal screening of medicinal plants of British Columbian native peoples. J Ethnopharmacol. 44: 157–169. [PUBMED], [INFOTRIEVE], [CSA], [CROSSREF]
  • McKey D. 1974. Adaptive patterns in alkaloid physiology. Am Nat. 108: 305–320. [CROSSREF]
  • Nepka CH, Asprodini E, Kouretas D. 1999. Tannins, xenobiotic metabolism and cancer chemoprevention in experimental animals. Eur J Drug Metab Pharmacokin. 24: 183–189. [CSA]
  • Paxton JD. 1991. Assays for antifungal activity. Hostettmann K. Methods in Biochemistry. 6, San Diego, Academic Press. 33–46
  • Rhoades DF. 1977. The antiherbivore chemistry of Larrea. Mabry T, Hunziker J, Difeo D. Creosote Bush. Dowden, Hutchinson, and Ross, Inc., Stroudsburg, PA, 135–175
  • Rhoades DF, Cates RG. 1976. Toward a general theory of plant herbivore chemistry. Rec Adv Phytochem. 10: 168–213
  • Shreve F, Wiggins IL. 1964; Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert. Vol. I, Stanford, Stanford University Press
  • Schultz J, Otte D, Enders F.. 1977; Larrea as a habitat component for desert arthropods, Mabry T, Hunziker J, Difeo D. Creosote Bush. Stroudsburg, PA, Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross. 176–208
  • Skehan P, Storeng R, Scudiero D, Monks A, McMahon J, Vistica D, Warren JT, Bokesch H, Kenney S, Boyd MR. 1990. New colimetric cytotoxicity assay for anticancer-drug screening. J Natl Cancer Inst. 82: 1107–1112. [PUBMED], [INFOTRIEVE]
  • Soejarto DD. 1993. Logistics and politics in plant drug discovery. Kinghorn AD, Balandrin MF. Human Medicinal Agents From Plants. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 96–111
  • Suffness M, Douros J. 1979. Drugs of plant origin. Devita VT, Busch H. Methods of Cancer Research. Vol. XVIV, New York, Academic Press. 73–126
  • Vanden Berghe DA, Vlietinck AJ. 1991. Screening methods for antibacterial and antiviral agents from higher plants. Hostettmann K. Methods in Biochemistry. 6, San Diego, Academic Press. 47–69

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.