Cytotoxic activity of a dichloromethane extract and fractions obtained from Eudistoma vannamei (Tunicata: Ascidiacea)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 391-398

  Jimenez, Paula C ^a   Wilke, Diego V ^a   Takeara, Renata ^b   Lotufo, Tito M C ^a   Pessoa, Cláudia ^a   Odorico de Moraes, Manoel ^a   Lopes, Norberto P ^b   Costa Lotufo, Letícia V ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Ascidians; Cyotoxicity; Eudistoma vannamei; MTT assay; tumor cell lines

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DICHLOROMETHANE DERIVATIVE; DOXORUBICIN; METHANOL; SILICA GEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BIOASSAY; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN HL 60; CELL VIABILITY; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; CYTOSTASIS; DNA SYNTHESIS; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; EUDISTOMA VANNAMEI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; LEUKEMIA CELL; MOUSE; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NONHUMAN;

ASCIDIACEA; EUDISTOMA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 52949100654     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.02.018     Document Type: Article

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