Anticancer effect of extracts from a North American medicinal plant - wild sarsaparilla

Anticancer Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3 A, 2006, Pages 2157-2164

  Wang, Jennifer ^a   Li, Qiuzhu ^b   Ivanochko, Gerald ^c   Huang, Yaoge ^b  

^a Walter Murray Collegiate   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c Government of Saskatchewan   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anticancer; Cytotoxicity; Medicinal plant; Natural health product; North America; Wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)

Indexed keywords

HEXANE; PLANT EXTRACT; SARSAPARILLA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FRUIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL; MEDICINAL PLANT; NORTH AMERICA; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; PLANT WATER CONTENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOME; SARSAPARILLA; UMBILICAL VEIN; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ARALIA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HELA CELLS; HEXANES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL; PLANT EXTRACTS; RHIZOME;

EID: 33745614896     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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