Journal of Pharmacognosy & Natural Products

The Anticancer Drug Discovery from Marine Invertebrates

Abstract

Chin Yung Han*

Medicines are medically prescribed treatments for the improvement of disease conditions, the restoration of good health and human vitality. Marine medicine, in relation to ocean derivatives, is the restoration of fitness. Via prevention and care as medicine, it includes a number of procedures using marine species to preserve health. Marine medicine is a science of prevention and recovery in relation to ocean derivatives to cure, preserve and restore health. It has a corollary area called Dive Medicine that is related. The marine ecosystem is a source of specific natural products that accumulate primarily in living organisms and function as pharmacologically active substances that are useful. Significant sources of biomedical compounds include marine sponges, molluscans, bacteria, corals, ascidians, bryozoans and vertebrates