Cytotoxicity of Extracts of Spices to Cultured Cells

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 251-257

  Unnikrishnan, M C ^a   Kuttan, Ramadasan ^a  

^a AMALA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASAFETIDA; BRASSICA; GARLIC EXTRACT; GINGER; HERB; SESAME; SPICE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL CULTURE; CHO CELL; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG COMPARISON; EXTRACT; HAMSTER; HIGHER PLANT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PEPPER; PHARMACEUTICS; PHARMACOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERO CELL;

ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CONDIMENTS; DNA; FEMALE; INDIA; LYMPHOCYTES; LYMPHOMA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THYMIDINE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0023683938     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: 15327914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635588809513995     Document Type: Article

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