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Piperine is a component of the spice black pepper. It inhibits the process of any non-food material including drugs to be thrown out of the system and thus enhances their effect. Therefore if black pepper is taken before taking the medicine , specially anticancer drugs , their activity increases multiple times. This paper shows many other piperine analogues which are expected to have more activity .Workers in this field may synthesize these and test in vivo.
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This paper suggests that the potency of many drugs specially anticancer drugs can be enhanced by taking these along with piperine, an alkaloid present in black pepper.
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This page is a summary of: Study of Some Piperine Analogues on Drugs Efflux by Targeting P-glycoprotein, an in silico Approach, Letters in Drug Design & Discovery, October 2016, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1570180813999160830102312.
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