Absence of tumor promoting activity of Euphorbia milii latex on the mouse back skin

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 175-180

  Delgado, I F ^a   De Carvalho, R R ^a   De Oliveira, A C A X ^a   Kuriyama, S N ^a   Oliveira Filho, E C ^a,b   Souza, C A M ^a   Paumgartten, F J R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carcinogenicity; Euphorbiaceae; Ingenol esters; Milliamines; Plant molluscicides; TPA; Tumor promotion

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; EUPHORBIA EXTRACT; EUPHORBIA MILII EXTRACT; LATEX; MOLLUSCACIDE; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CELL STRAIN V 79; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA MILII; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAPILLOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAJI CELL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SKIN TUMOR; TUMOR PROMOTION;

ANIMALIA; EUPHORBIA MILII; EUPHORBIACEAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4;

EID: 0142196555     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(03)00303-5     Document Type: Article

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