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It's well known that green silver nanoparticles kill cancer cells...but 'how?.'is the question.. so in this paper it is explained by the authors what is a possible pathway of apoptosis is being activated by green silver nanoparticles to kill breast cancer cells.

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Breast cancer is a rising cause of fatality for ladies and a green approach for treatment of breast cancer with low side effect is essential to reduce the risk. So Mentha, a medicinal plant is selected as a reducing agent and with conjugation to silver nitrate,forming silver nanoparticles, it showed effectiveness against breast cancer cells. So it has potential to be a novel anticancer drug

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This page is a summary of: Mentha arvensis (Linn.)-mediated green silver nanoparticles trigger caspase 9-dependent cell death in MCF7 and MDA-MB-231 cells, Breast Cancer Targets and Therapy, April 2017, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/bctt.s130952.
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