Advances on Medicinal Plants in Inducing Differentiation of Cancer Cells

Abstract:

Induction of cancer cell differentiation has been one of the means of effective cancer treatment research. All-trans retinoic acid induced differentiation of acute promyelocytic leukemia treatment achieved good results，so the induction of differentiation to attract more and more scholars' attention. Medicinal plants not only has medicinal value，but also have some food value and economic value. At present，attach importance to the development of the use of medicinal plants and more and more of the differentiation-inducing medicinal plant which because side effects，low toxicity are more widely used in the treatment of tumor cells in the study. This paper reviews the status of medicinal plants' active ingredient in tumor cell differentiation therapy research in the field and its related mechanism of action.