Mistletoe lectin is not the only cytotoxic component in fermented preparations of Viscum album from white fir (Abies pectinata)

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Eggenschwiler, Jenny ^a   von Balthazar, Leopold ^a   Stritt, Bianca ^a,b   Pruntsch, Doreen ^a,c   Ramos, Mac ^d   Urech, Konrad ^e   Rist, Lukas ^f   Simoes Wust A ^f   Viviani, Angelika ^a  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b FURTWANGEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

^d WELEDA AG   (Germany)

^e Institut Hiscia   (Switzerland)

^f Research Department   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT LECTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISCUM ALBUM EXTRACT; VISCUM ALBUM LECTIN; VISCUM ALBUM LECTIN 1; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ABIES; ANIMAL CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APPLE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL CULTURE; COLORIMETRY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FERMENTED PRODUCT; GROWTH INHIBITION; HOST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OAK; PINE; BLADDER TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; TUMOR CELL LINE; VISCUM ALBUM;

ABIES; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; DOWN-REGULATION; HUMANS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 34249903618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-7-14     Document Type: Article

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