Zerumbone Molecule on Breast Cancer

Somak Chakrabarti

Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36664/bt/2022/v69i1/172474

Keywords: Zerumbone, Breast Malignancy, Cancer.


Abstract

Cancer is a significant danger to general wellbeing universally, causing roughly ten million deaths globally in 2018. Regardless of advances in regular therapy in modalities of the malignant growth treatment, there are, as, yet, scarcely any effective therapies accessible because of the absence of selectivity, unfavourable results, toxicity levels, and tumour relapse. Hence, there is a quick requirement for fundamental elective therapeutics, which can be helpful and protect against the said disease. Different phytochemicals derived from natural sources have been discovered to show practical restorative actions against different human infections. One such chemical is Zerumbone, extracted from Zingiber zerumbet Smith that has various pharmacological properties, including cell reinforcement, antibacterial, antipyretic, immunomodulatory, and is also hostile to neoplastic growths. Zerumbone has demonstrated anti-cancer potential by causing critical concealment of multiplication, survival, angiogenesis, and metastasis through various pathways. NF-kB, Akt, and IL-6/JAK2/STAT3 (Interleukin-6/Janus Kinase-2/Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3) are a few examples with their downstream objective proteins. The present audit momentarily sums up the activity and helpful capability of zerumbone against breast malignancy.

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