Marine organisms from Brazil as source of potential anticancer agents

Advances in Phytomedicine

Volumn 2, Issue C, 2006, Pages 181-196

  Costa Lotufo, Letícia Veras ^a   Pessoa, Cláudia ^a   Moraes, Maria Elisabete A ^a   Paixão Almeida, Adaíla Marta ^a   de Moraes, Manoel Odorico ^a   da Cruz Lotufo, Tito Monteiro ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Brazil; marine biodiversity; marine natural products

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957118523     PISSN: 1572557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1572-557X(05)02011-8     Document Type: Review

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