Treatment of chemotherapy-induced leukopenia in a rat model with aqueous extract from Uncaria tomentosa

Phytomedicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-143

  Sheng, Y ^a   Pero, R W ^a   Wagner, H ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Doxorubicin; Leukopenia; Rat; Uncaria tomentosa

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; C MED 100; DOXORUBICIN; PLANT EXTRACT; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; UNCARIA TOMENTOSA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; MITOGENESIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALIA; UNCARIA TOMENTOSA;

EID: 0034108493     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0944-7113(00)80086-0     Document Type: Article

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