Mixtures of Uncaria and Tabebuia extracts are potentially chemopreventive in CBA/Ca mice: A long-term experiment

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 493-500

  Budán, Ferenc ^a   Szabõ, István ^a   Varjas, Tímea ^a   Nowrasteh, Ghodratollah ^a   Dávid, Tamás ^b   Gergely, Péter ^c   Varga, Zsuzsa ^d   Molnár, Kornélia ^e   Kádár, Balázs ^a   Orsõs, Zsuzsa ^a   Kiss, István ^a   Ember, István ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b International CoD Cancer Information Centre Foundation   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^d Baranya County Hospital   (Hungary)

^e Office of the Chief Medical Officer   (Hungary)

Author keywords

carcinogenesis; chemoprevention; DMBA; gene expression; Tabebuia; Uncaria

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; TABEBUIA AVELLANEDAE EXTRACT; UNCARIA GUIANENSIS EXTRACT; UNCARIA TOMENTOSA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BARK; CANCER PREVENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG TARGETING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C H RAS; ONCOGENE C MYC; ONCOGENE K RAS; PROTO ONCOGENE; SPLEEN; TABEBUIA; TABEBUIA AVELLANEDAE; TEA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UNCARIA; UNCARIA GUIANENSIS; UNCARIA TOMENTOSA;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; PLANT EXTRACTS; TABEBUIA; UNCARIA;

ANIMALIA; CECROPIA OBTUSIFOLIA; MUS; TABEBUIA; TABEBUIA AVELLANEDAE; UNCARIA; UNCARIA GUIANENSIS; UNCARIA TOMENTOSA;

EID: 79953173618     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3281     Document Type: Article

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