Anticancer activity of Ocimum sanctum

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 285-290

  Karthikeyan, K ^a   Gunasekaran, P ^b   Ramamurthy, N ^b   Govindasamy, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^b Institute of Preventive Medicine   (India)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cytotoxicity; Glutathione; Human fibrosarcoma cells; Ocimum sanctum extracts; Sarcoma 180 solid tumor

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GLUTATHIONE; OCIMUM SANCTUM EXTRACT;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; FIBROSARCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIFESPAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SARCOMA 180; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALIA; LAMIACEAE; OCIMUM SANCTUM; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM;

EID: 0033451349     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/phbi.37.4.285.5801     Document Type: Article

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