Verbena officinalis essential oil and citral as apoptotic inductors in leukocytes of healthy subjects and chronic myeloid leukemic patients

Pharmacologyonline

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 170-175

  De Martino, Laura ^a   Iorio, Myriam ^b   Coppola, Giuseppe ^b   Campana, Annapaola ^b   Savastano, Clementina ^b   Fusco, Bruno Marcello ^a   De Feo, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO E RUGGI D ARAGONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Chronic myeloid leukemia; Citral; Verbena officinalis

Indexed keywords

ANETHOLE; AROMADENDRENE; BETA ELEMENE; BETA PHELLANDRENE; BICYCLOGERMACRENE; BORNEOL; CEDRENE; CINEOLE; CITRAL; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAMMA GURJUNENE; HEPTEN 2 ONE; HUMULENE; ISOLEDENE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; LONGIFOLENE; OCIMENE; PARA CYMENE; PINENE; PINOCAMPHONE; PINOCARVEOL; PINOCARVONE; SABINENE; TERPINENE; TERPINEOL; TERPINOLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERBENA OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; VERVAIN;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CELL CYCLE; CELL ISOLATION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NEUTROPHIL;

EID: 52649162389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18278620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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