Inhibition of tumor cells growth and stimulation of lymphocytes by Euphorbia species

Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-42

  Amirghofran, Zahra ^a,b   Malek Hosseini, Saeed ^a   Gholmoghaddam, Hossein ^a   Kalalinia, Fatemeh ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Euphorbia species; lymphocytes; tumor cell line

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BUTANOL; EUPHORBIA HEBECARPA EXTRACT; EUPHORBIA HETERADENIA EXTRACT; EUPHORBIA MICROCIADIA EXTRACT; EUPHORBIA OSYRIDEA EXTRACT; EUPHORBIA PETIOLATA EXTRACT; HEXANE; METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TUMOR CELL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EUPHORBIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA PETIOLATA; EUPHORBIACEAE;

EID: 79551602910     PISSN: 08923973     EISSN: 15322513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08923971003699018     Document Type: Article

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