Relationships between plant folklore and antitumor activity: An historical review

SIDA, Contributions to Botany

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2205-2241

  Spjut, Richard W ^a,b  

^a World Botanical Associates   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

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