Effect of Pfaffia paniculata (Brazilian ginseng) on the Ehrlich tumor in its ascitic form

Life Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 573-579

  Matsuzaki, Patrícia ^a   Akisue, Gokithi ^b   Salgado Oloris, Sílvia Catarina ^a   Górniak, Silvana Lima ^a   Zaidan Dagli, Maria Lúcia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Universidade de São Paulo ^*

Author keywords

Antitumor therapy; Ehrlich tumor; Pfaffia paniculata (Brazilian ginseng)

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; WATER;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTILLATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; EHRLICH ASCITES TUMOR; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENT; FEEDING; GINSENG; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INOCULATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PFAFFIA PANICULATA; PLANT ROOT; POWDER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPLEEN; TOXICITY; TUMOR CELL;

PANAX GINSENG; PFAFFIA; PFAFFIA PANICULATA;

EID: 0242583978     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2003.05.010     Document Type: Article

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