Antiproliferative property of aqueous extract of garlic on human larynx tumour and non-tumour mouse fibroblast cell lines

Australian Journal of Medical Herbalism

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-37

  Hajzadeh, Moosa Alreza ^a   Afshari, Jalil Tavakkol ^b   Ghorbani, Ahmad ^a   Shakeri, Mohammad Taghi ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antiproliferative; Aqueous extract; Garlic; Hep2; L929; MTT

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349106606     PISSN: 10338330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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