Studies of anticancer and antipyretic activity of Bidens pilosa whole plant

African Health Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-30

  Sundararajan, Parimalakrishnan ^a   Dey, Akalanka ^a   Smith, Anton ^a   Doss, Arul Gana ^a   Rajappan, Manavalan ^a   Natarajan, Sridhar ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Anticancer; Antipyretic; Bidens pilosa; Comet assay; MTT assay

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ACETONE; BIDENS PILOSA EXTRACT; CHLOROFORM; HEXANE; METHANOL; PARACETAMOL; PYROGEN; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIPYRETIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ISOLATION; FEVER; FRACTIONATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACETATES; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; BIDENS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RABBITS;

EID: 33747221147     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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