Effect of 3 plant extracts on B16-BL6 melanoma cell growth and metastasis in C57BL/6 mice

Acta Cientifica Venezolana

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 32-36

  Caballero, Madelf ^a   Arsenak, Miriam ^a   Abad, María Jesús ^a   Cesari, Italo M ^b   Taylor, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas Centro de Microbiologia y Biologia Celular   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Melanoma; Metastasis; Mouse; Uncaria tomentosa

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149086922     PISSN: 00015504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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