Antibacterial medicinal plants Equiseti herba and Ononidis radix modulate micronucleus formation in human lymphocytes in vitro

Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-48

  Joksić, Gordana ^a   Stanković, Miroslava ^a   Novak, Angelina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Medical Center of Serbia   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

Clastogenic effects; Cytochalasin block; Equiseti herba; FISH; Genotoxicity; Human lymphocytes; Medicinal plants; Micronuclei; Ononidis radix; Uv ursi

Indexed keywords

CLASTOGEN; CYTOCHALASIN; EQUISETI HERBA EXTRACT; ONONIDIS RADIX EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVA URSI EXTRACT;

ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA URSI; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CENTROMERE; COBALT THERAPY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CYTOGENETICS; DNA PROBE; DRUG EFFECT; EQUISETUM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; ONONIDIS RADIX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSENSITIZATION;

ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA-URSI; EQUISETI HERBA; EQUISETUM; ONONIDIS RADIX; UVA URSI;

EID: 0037241921     PISSN: 07318898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/jenvpathtoxoncol.v22.i1.40     Document Type: Article

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