Medicinal plants used as antitumor agents in Brazil: An ethnobotanical approach

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  De Melo, Joabe Gomes ^a,b   Santos, Ariane Gaspar ^b   De Amorim, Elba Lúcia Cavalcanti ^b   Nascimento, Silene Carneiro Do ^b   De Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 OXOTINGENOL; ALOE EMODIN; ALOIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ASCARIDOLE; BENZYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; BETA LAPACHONE; CAPSAICIN; CHELERYTHRINE; CHELIDONINE; CYCLOVIOLACIN; EMETINE; ERYTHRODIOL; ESCULENTOIC ACID A; ESCULENTOIC ACID B; GLYCOPROTEIN; KAURENOIC ACID; LATEX; LINAMARIN; LYCOPENE; PLANT EXTRACT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; PLUMBAGIN; PRISTIMERIN; RAPANONE; SANGUINARINE; SILIBININ; SILYMARIN; SOLANINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

BARK; BENIGN TUMOR; BRAZIL; CANCER THERAPY; ETHNOBOTANY; FLOWER; FRUIT; LEUKEMIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUTH CANCER; MYOMA; NONHUMAN; PLANT BULB; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; TUMOR; VERRUCA VULGARIS;

EID: 79955089811     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/365359     Document Type: Review

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