Report for: Drug Discovery from Mother Nature

You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.

Chapter title	Plumbagin and Its Role in Chronic Diseases
Chapter number	10
Book title	Drug Discovery from Mother Nature
Published in	Advances in experimental medicine and biology, October 2016
DOI	10.1007/978-3-319-41342-6_10
Pubmed ID	27771927
Book ISBNs	978-3-31-941341-9, 978-3-31-941342-6
Authors	Pharkphoom Panichayupakaranant, Md Iftekhar Ahmad
Editors	Subash Chandra Gupta, Sahdeo Prasad, Bharat B. Aggarwal
Abstract	Plumbagin (5-hydroxy-2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone) is a plant-derived naphthoquinones obtained mainly from three families, including Plumbaginaceae, Droseraceae, and Ebenaceae. Plumbagin has exhibited its potential therapeutic benefits on numerous chronic diseases, i.e., breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, melanoma, ovarian, squamous cell carcinomas, pancreatic cancer, and prostate cancer. In addition, its anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial activities as well as control of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases have been reported. Thus, plumbagin is a promising agent for development as a new drug for the treatment or control of chronic diseases. Studies on controlled drug release or drug delivery systems have been involved for improvement of its therapeutic efficacy as well as for the reduction of its toxicity. However, most of the recent research information is from in vitro and in vivo studies. Further clinical studies are therefore required for its developments and applications as a novel drug used to treat chronic diseases.

View on publisher site Alert me about new mentions

Twitter Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profile of 1 tweeter who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.

Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
Colombia	1	100%

Demographic breakdown

Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	1	100%

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 43 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
Unknown	43	100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Master	7	16%
Student > Ph. D. Student	6	14%
Student > Doctoral Student	4	9%
Researcher	4	9%
Student > Bachelor	2	5%
Other	6	14%
Unknown	14	33%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science	12	28%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	3	7%
Medicine and Dentistry	2	5%
Chemistry	2	5%
Business, Management and Accounting	1	2%
Other	6	14%
Unknown	17	40%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 July 2017.

All research outputs

#18,538,272

of 22,959,818 outputs

Outputs from Advances in experimental medicine and biology

#3,322

of 4,957 outputs

Outputs of similar age

#238,813

of 315,546 outputs

Outputs of similar age from Advances in experimental medicine and biology

#56

of 79 outputs

Altmetric has tracked 22,959,818 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 11th percentile – i.e., 11% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.

So far Altmetric has tracked 4,957 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.1. This one is in the 19th percentile – i.e., 19% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.

Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 315,546 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one is in the 13th percentile – i.e., 13% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.

We're also able to compare this research output to 79 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 17th percentile – i.e., 17% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.

Drug Discovery from Mother Nature

Table of Contents

Mentioned by

Citations

Readers on

Twitter Demographics

Geographical breakdown

Demographic breakdown

Mendeley readers

Geographical breakdown

Demographic breakdown

Attention Score in Context