Hazel (Corylus avellana L.) as a New Source of Taxol and Taxanes
نویسندگان
1 Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Plant Breeding, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran
3 Department of Biotechnology of Medicinal Plants, Institute of Medicinal Plants, ACECR, Karaj, Iran
4 Department of Cultivation and Development, Institute of Medicinal Plants, ACECR
5 Department of Biotechnology of Medicinal Plants, Institute of Medicinal Plants, ACECR, Karaj, Iran
6 Department of Biotechnology of Medicinal Plants, Institute of Medicinal Plants, ACECR, Karaj, Iran
7 Department of Cultivation and Development, Institute of Medicinal Plants, ACECR, Karaj, Iran
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چکیده
Taxol is used to treatment of variety cancers including ovarian, breast, lung, head and neck carcinomas and the AIDS-related Karposi’s carcinoma, and was originally obtained from bark of taxus brevifolia. However the amount of extracted taxol from taxus is extremely low and cannot be considered as a suitable commercial source and ...