A preliminary assessment of singlet oxygen scavenging, cytotoxic and genotoxic properties of Geranium macrorrhizum extracts

Acta Biochimica Polonica

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-163

  Venskutonis, Petras Rimantas ^a   Dedonyte, Veronika ^b   Lazutka, Juozas ^b   Slapšyte, Gražina ^b   Maroziene, Audrone ^c   Nemeikaite Čeniene, Aušra ^b   Čenas, Narimantas ^c   Miliauskas, Giedrius ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c Biochemistry Institute   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Genotoxicity; Geranium macrorrhizum; Polyphenols

Indexed keywords

BOVINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GERANIUM MACRORRHIZUM; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956513158     PISSN: 0001527X     EISSN: 1734154X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18388/abp.2010_2389     Document Type: Article

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