Antiproliferative effects of essential oils and their major constituents in human renal adenocarcinoma and amelanotic melanoma cells

Cell Proliferation

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1002-1012

  Loizzo, M R ^a   Tundis, R ^a   Menichini, F ^a   Saab, A M ^b   Statti, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CEDROL; ALPHA FENCHENE; ALPHA PHELLANDRENE; ALPHA THUJENE; BORNYL ACETATE; CAMPHENE; CAMPHOR; CARVEOL; CARYOPHYLLENE; COPAENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; HUMULENE DERIVATIVE; ISOBORNEOL; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; METHYLEUGENOL; MYRCENE; OCIMENE; PINENE; RHODAMINE; SABINENE; SPATHULENOL; SULPHORHODAMINE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; TERPINEN 4 OL; TERPINENE; TERPINOLENE; THYMOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERBENONE;

AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL ASSAY; CUPRESSUS SEMPERVIRENS; DISTILLATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELANOMA CELL; PLATYCLADUS ORIENTALIS; PRANGOS ASPERULA;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CUPRESSUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; OILS, VOLATILE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT OILS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TERPENES;

ASPERULA; CUPRESSUS SEMPERVIRENS; PLATYCLADUS ORIENTALIS; PRANGOS; PYRAMIDALIS;

EID: 56549091800     PISSN: 09607722     EISSN: 13652184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2184.2008.00561.x     Document Type: Article

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