Areej Al-Taweel is a Professor at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. She obtained her Ph.D. from the King Saud University in 2007. She is an expert in Natural Product Isolation and structure. She has published more than forty research papers and two chapters one book in different ISI listed journals.
Natural phenolic compounds are considered as one of the important secondary metabolites for their chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic effects in cancer. These compounds show potent activities for cancer prevention and its treatment. There are many phenolic compounds present in medicinal and edible plants such as, flavonoids, bioflavonoids, stilbenes, chalconoids, chromones, phenylpropanoids, curcuminoids, coumarins, tannins, lignans, neolignans, anthraquinones, quinones, xanthones, phenolic acids and their glycosides and many more. The antioxidant potential of phenolic compounds is almost bolded in the treatment and prevention of cancer. Mono phenolic, polyphenolic and phenolic acids compounds from a large variety of plants, foods, spices, insects, fungus, beverages, lichens, algae and mammals have been shown to inhibit or attenuate the initiation, progression and spread of cancers in cells in vitro and in animals in vivo. In this chapter, we try to cover general view and the recent literature to summarize structural information and cytotoxic effects of phenolic compounds on different cancer cell lines from medicinal herbs and plants.
Part of the book: Phenolic Compounds
Part of the book: Terpenes and Terpenoids