Activity of Novel Plant Extracts Against Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Cells

Anticancer Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2 A, 2004, Pages 495-500

  Rinner, Beate ^a   Siegl, Veronika ^a   Pürstner, Peter ^a   Efferth, Thomas ^b   Brem, Brigitte ^c   Greger, Harald ^c   Pfragner, Roswitha ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Drug resistance; Medullary thyroid carcinoma; Plant based drugs

Indexed keywords

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; AGLAIA EXTRACT; ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM EXTRACT; ARTESUNATE; CALCITONIN; CASPASE 3; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTEIN BCL 2; STEMONA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTEMISIA; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RESISTANCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELIACEAE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEMONACEAE; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA;

AGLAIA; ANGIOSPERMS; ARTEMISIA; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; STEMONACEAE; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2442607811     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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