Longan flower extract inhibits the growth of colorectal carcinoma

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-236

  Hsu, Chih Ping ^a   Lin, Ying Hsi ^a   Zhou, Shi Ping ^a   Chung, Yuan Chiang ^b   Lin, Chih Cheng ^a   Wang, Shao Cheng ^a  

^a YUANPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAO YUAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CYCLIN A; CYCLIN E; LONGAN FLOWER EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTEIN BCL 2; RHODAMINE 123; TRYPAN BLUE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLOWER; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CYCLIN A; CYCLIN E; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FLOWERS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; RHODAMINE 123; S PHASE; SAPINDACEAE;

CITRUS MACROPHYLLA; DIMOCARPUS LONGAN;

EID: 76749167695     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635580903305367     Document Type: Article

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