Immunologic and biochemical effects of the fermented wheat germ extract avemar

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 144-149

  Illmer, Christoph ^a   Madlener, Sibylle ^a   Horvath, Zsuzsanna ^a   Saiko, Philipp ^a   Losert, Annemarie ^b   Herbacek, Irene ^b   Grusch, Michael ^b   Krupitza, Georg ^c   Fritzer Szekeres, Monika ^a   Szekeres, Thomas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Avemar; Cell cycle; Cyclooxygenase; HT 29; Ribonucleotide reductase

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; AVEMAR; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; PLANT EXTRACT; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; NECROSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 19944434109     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153537020523000209     Document Type: Article

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