Biogenic metallic nanoparticles and their anticancer activities: Biotechnological perspectives

Abstract

Cancer is considered to be a dreaded disease throughout the world. There are many different types of drugs available to treat this disease. Nowadays, scientists are engaged to develop drugs at the nanoscale. The nano-drugs are found to exhibit more efficiency and accuracy. Nanotechnology is an emerging technology dealing with the development of nano-particles and nanostructures. These substances have acquired significance because of their size, shape and potential efficiency as well as specificity. Nano-particles mediated drugs were very focusing, emerging objective regarding the use of different types of nanoparticles as carrier to treat cancerous tumors and cancer cells. Medicinal lysis or synthesis of nanoparticles with biological procedures has become very much significant due to their specific efficacy and lesser harms compared to other available medicines used for cancer. In this review, green plants, their active compounds and metallic nano-particles are discussed with emphasis on their anticancer activities and properties.