Investigating the Safety of Plants Used in South African Traditional Medicine: Testing for Genotoxicity in the Micronucleus and Alkaline Comet Assays

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 144-154

  Taylor, Joslyn L S ^a,b,c   Elgorashi, Esameldin E ^a,b,c   Maes, Annemie ^a   Van Gorp, Urbain ^a   De Kimpe, Norbert ^b   Van Staden, Johannes ^c   Verschaeve, Luc ^a  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cancer; Comet assay; Medicinal plants; Micronucleus test; Mutagenicity; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

DICHLOROMETHANE; DNA; METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA DAMAGE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUTH AFRICA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

CELLS, CULTURED; COMET ASSAY; HUMANS; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0038762239     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.10184     Document Type: Article

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