ukrain
Sign in to saveUkrain (; also called celandine) is the trademarked name of a semi-synthetic substance derived from the plant Chelidonium majus and promoted as a drug to treat cancer and viral infections, including HIV and hepatitis. It was created in 1978, by the famed Ukrainian chemist (). Ukrain is named after the nation of Ukraine and is produced by the Austrian company Nowicky Pharma.
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Vinony's link graph records 5 inbound references to ukrain, and connects out to Ukraine, Ukrainian and cancer.
Vinony files it under Alternative cancer treatments, Chemical pages without DrugBank identifier and Drugs missing an ATC code.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Research
222 papers- Ukrain - a new cancer cure? A systematic review of randomised clinical trials.BMC cancer · 2005
- Ukrain: a novel antitumor drug.Drugs under experimental and clinical research · 2000
- Ukrain (NSC-631570) in experimental and clinical studies: a review.Drugs under experimental and clinical research · 1998
- Ukrain (NSC-631570) influences on bone status: a review.Drugs under experimental and clinical research · 2000
- Ukrain modulates glial fibrillary acidic protein, but not connexin 43 expression, and induces apoptosis in human cultured glioblastoma cells.Anti-cancer drugs · 2007
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Ukrain (; also called celandine) is the trademarked name of a semi-synthetic substance derived from the plant Chelidonium majus and promoted as a drug to treat cancer and viral infections, including HIV and hepatitis. It was created in 1978, by the famed Ukrainian chemist (). Ukrain is named after the nation of Ukraine and is produced by the Austrian company Nowicky Pharma.
According to the American Cancer Society and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, there is no evidence that Ukrain is an effective cancer treatment.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ukrain” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.