An emerging green pharmacy: Modern plant medicines and health

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 170-176

  Gruber, John W ^a   DerMarderosian, Ara ^a,b  

^a Philadelphia Coll Pharm and Sci   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

17 HYDROXYCORTICOSTEROID; CAFFEINE; CAPSAICIN; CATECHOLAMINE; DIGITALIS; ECHINACEA PURPUREA EXTRACT; EPHEDRINE; HEPARIN; HYPERICIN; PACLITAXEL; PASSIFLORA INCARNATA EXTRACT; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; QUININE; RESERPINE; SESQUITERPENE; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE; VALERIAN; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BOTANY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COMFREY; DETOXIFICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG THERAPY; GINSENG; HERBAL MEDICINE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PHARMACOLOGY; SEDATION; SENECIO; TANACETUM PARTHENIUM; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0029976130     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/labmed/27.3.170     Document Type: Article

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