Cytotoxicity screening of endemic plants from Guayana highlands

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-154

  Guil Guerrero, José Luis ^a   Campra, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CASEARIA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; COLON TUMOR; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; ERICACEAE; FEMALE; GUYANA; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT LEAF; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASEARIA; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; ERICACEAE; FEMALE; GUYANA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES;

EID: 72449183240     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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