Cytotoxic and antitumour principles from Ixora caccinea flowers

Cancer Letters

Volumn 130, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 197-202

  Latha, P G ^a   Panikkar, K R ^a  

^a Trop Botanic Gdn and Res Inst   (India)

Author keywords

Antitumour; Dalton's lymphoma; Ehrlich ascites carcinoma; Ixora coccinea flower active fraction; Sarcoma 180

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DNA; PLANT EXTRACT;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASCITES TUMOR; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL STRAIN K 562; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; EHRLICH ASCITES TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA CELL; SOLID TUMOR;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; CARCINOMA, EHRLICH TUMOR; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MALE; MICE; RUBIACEAE; SARCOMA 180;

ANIMALIA; COCCOIDEA; IXORA; IXORA COCCINEA; RUBIACEAE;

EID: 0032516685     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(98)00140-2     Document Type: Article

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