Screening for anticancer agents from sonoran desert plants: A chemical ecology approach

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 478-487

  Donaldson, Jack R ^a   Cates, Rex G ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chemical ecology; Ecology based approach; Ethnobotany; Ethnomedical

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG SCREENING; ETHNOBOTANY; FIBROBLAST; HELA CELL; MICROTITER PLATE ASSAY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PLANT ECOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 11844263964     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13880200490891287     Document Type: Article

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