Cytotoxic activity of essential oils from Labiatae and Lauraceae families against in vitro human tumor models

Anticancer Research

Volumn 27, Issue 5 A, 2007, Pages 3293-3299

  Loizzo, Monica Rosa ^a   Tundis, Rosa ^a   Menichini, Federica ^a   Saab, Antoine Mikael ^b   Statti, Giancarlo Antonio ^a   Menichini, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Essential oils; Laurus nobilis; Pistacia palestina; Salvia officinalis; Satureia thymbra; Sideritis perfoliata

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL;

AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CYTOTOXICITY; DISTILLATION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; TUMOR MODEL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; LAMIACEAE; LAURACEAE; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT EXTRACTS;

EID: 35348989762     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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