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Medicinal Plants
Nothapodytes Tree

Species Name :  Nothapodytes foetida

Common Names : Nothapodytes Tree

Compound – Acetylcamptothecin, Camptothecin, Scopolectin

Camptothecin found in the Nothapodytes Tree is an inhibitor of the DNA topoisomerase found in cancerous cells.

This halts the process of mutation and development of the cancer cells that render them useless and as a result, they die.

This means of cancer curation makes use of the property of inhibition that the camptothecin compound has with the DNA of the cancerous cells
 

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