Anticancer activity of an indian medicinal plant, alstonia scholaris, on skin carcinogenesis in mice

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-279

  Jahan, Swafiya ^a   Chaudhary, Ranu ^a   Goyal, Pradeep Kumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

Alstonia scholaris; Catalase; Chemoprevention; Lipid peroxidation; Reduced glutathione

Indexed keywords

7,12 DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS EXTRACT; AYURVEDIC DRUG; CATALASE; CROTON OIL; GLUTATHIONE; SAPTHAPARNA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALSTONIA; ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AYURVEDA; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SKIN PAPILLOMA;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ALSTONIA; ANIMALS; CATALASE; CHEMOPREVENTION; CROTON OIL; GLUTATHIONE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; MALE; MICE; PAPILLOMA; PLANT BARK; PLANT EXTRACTS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

EID: 70350026351     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735409343590     Document Type: Article

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