Cytotoxic activity of some marine brown algae against cancer cell lines

Biological Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-37

  Khanavi, Mahnaz ^a   Nabavi, Maryam ^a   Sadati, Nargess ^a   Ardekani, Mohammadreza Shams ^a   Sohrabipour, Jelve ^b   Nabavi, Seyed Mohammad B ^c   Ghaeli, Padideh ^d   Ostad, Seyed Nasser ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Agriculture and Natural Resource Research Center of Hormozgan   (Iran)

^c KHORRAMSHAHR UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Colpomenia sinuosa; Cystoseira myrica; Cytotoxic activity; MTT assay; Persian Gulf; Sargassum swartzii

Indexed keywords

COLPOMENIA SINUOSA; CYSTOSEIRA MYRICA; MYRICACEAE; PHAEOPHYCEAE; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM SWARTZII;

EID: 77953695761     PISSN: 07169760     EISSN: 07176287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0716-97602010000100005     Document Type: Article

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