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- Title
Cannabinoids: potential anticancer agents.
- Authors
Guzmán, Manuel
- Abstract
Cannabinoids - the active components of Cannabis sativa and their derivatives - exert palliative effects in cancer patients by preventing nausea, vomiting and pain and by stimulating appetite. In addition, these compounds have been shown to inhibit the growth of tumour cells in culture and animal models by modulating key cell-signalling pathways. Cannabinoids are usually well tolerated, and do not produce the generalized toxic effects of conventional chemotherapies. So, could cannabinoids be used to develop new anticancer therapies?
- Publication
Nature reviews. Cancer, 2003, Vol 3, Issue 10, p745
- ISSN
1474-175X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrc1188