Chemopreventive activity of Azadirachta indica on two-stage skin carcinogenesis in murine model

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 408-416

  Arora, N ^a   Koul, A ^a   Bansal, M P ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Azadirachta indica; Phytochemicals; Skin tumors

Indexed keywords

AZADIRACHTA INDICA EXTRACT; BETA ACTIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STAGING; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SKIN TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; AZADIRACHTA; CARCINOMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE;

ANIMALIA; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 79952221727     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3280     Document Type: Article

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