Evaluation of chemopreventive action and antimutagenic effect of the standardized Panax Ginseng extract, EFLA400 in Swiss albino mice

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-71

  Panwar, Meenakshi ^a   Kumar, Madhu ^a   Samarth, Ravindra ^a   Kumar, Ashok ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

Chemoprevention; Chromosomal aberrations; Croton oil; DMBA; Micronuclei; Mouse bone marrow; Papilloma; Standardized extract of Panax ginseng (EFLA400)

Indexed keywords

ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CROTON OIL; DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; EFLA 400; GINSENG EXTRACT;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DOSE RESPONSE; GENOTOXICITY; GINSENG; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAPILLOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; BONE MARROW CELLS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CROTON OIL; GINSENOSIDES; MALE; MICE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; PANAX; PAPILLOMA; PHYTOTHERAPY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA; CROTON; PANAX GINSENG; PHOENIX;

EID: 15944385650     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1584     Document Type: Article

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