Extraordinary anticancer effect of green tea and red light

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 429-430

  Sommer, Andrei P ^a   Zhu, Dan ^a   Scharnweber, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICANCER EFFECTS; CANCER CELL LINES; CANCER CELLS; CANCER RESEARCH; CERVICAL CANCER CELLS; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; GREEN TEA; HELA CELL; IN-VIVO; INTENSE LASER; IRRADIATED SAMPLES; LASER LIGHTS; RED LIGHT;

CELL CULTURE;

CELLS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CATECHIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; HELA CELL; HUMAN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CATECHIN; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY;

EID: 77953954131     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2009.2706     Document Type: Article

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