Anticrotalic and antitumoral activities of gel filtration fractions of aqueous extract from Tabernaemontana catharinensis (Apocynaceae)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-27

  De Almeida, Lucilene ^a   Cintra, Adelia C O ^a   Veronese, Elen L G ^a   Nomizo, Auro ^a   Franco, João José ^a   Arantes, Eliane C ^b   Giglio, José Roberto ^b   Sampaio, Suely Vilela ^a  

^a T   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anticrotalic activity; Antitumoral activity; Crotalus durissus terrificus venom; Crotoxin; Tabernaemontana catharinensis

Indexed keywords

CROTOXIN; PLANT EXTRACT; TABERNAEMONTANA CATHARINENSIS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL FRACTIONATION; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG ISOLATION; GEL FILTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TIME; LD 50; LETHALITY; MALE; METASTASIS INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TABERNAEMONTANA; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; APOCYNACEAE; CROTALUS; CROTALUS DURISSUS TERRIFICUS; SERPENTES; TABERNAEMONTANA;

EID: 1242337367     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2003.10.012     Document Type: Article

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