Antiproliferative activity, antioxidant capacity and tannin content in plants of semi-arid northeastern Brazil

Molecules

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 8534-8542

  De Melo, Joabe Gomes ^a   De Sousa Araújo, Thiago Antônio ^a   De Almeida Castro, Valérium Thijan Nobre ^a   De Vasconcelos Cabral, Daniela Lyra ^a   Do Desterro Rodrigues, Maria ^a   Do Nascimento, Silene Carneiro ^a   De Amorim, Elba Lúcia Cavalcanti ^a   De Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Antiproliferative; Caatinga; Tannin

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CYTOTOXIN; PLANT EXTRACT; TANNIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; PLANT; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BRAZIL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOTOXINS; HUMANS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS; TANNINS;

EID: 78650671575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules15128534     Document Type: Article

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