Anti-proliferative and antioxidant activities of Saposhnikovia divaricata

Oncology Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 227-234

  Tai, Joseph ^a   Cheung, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory; Antioxidant; Cytotoxicity; Gene expression; Herbal extract; Saposhnikovia divaricata; Tumor cell lines

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; HERBACEOUS AGENT; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL; APIALES; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN HL 60; CELL STRAIN K 562; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GRANULOCYTE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APIACEAE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; GRANULOCYTES; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; K562 CELLS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MONOCYTES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 34548016328     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.18.1.227     Document Type: Article

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