Evaluation of the cyto- and genotoxic activity of yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) in human lymphocytes in vitro

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 695, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 18-23

  Wnuk, Maciej ^a   Lewinska, Anna ^a   Oklejewicz, Bernadetta ^a   Bugno, Monika ^b   Slota, Ewa ^b   Bartosz, Grzegorz ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RZESZÓW   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Caffeine; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Micronuclei; Silver stained nucleolar organizer regions; Yerba mate

Indexed keywords

ANEUGEN; CAFFEINE; ILEX PARAGUARIENSIS EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRY MASS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILEX PARAGUARIENSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR DIVISION; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; LYMPHOCYTE; TEA;

CROTON OVALIFOLIUS; ILEX PARAGUARIENSIS;

APOPTOSIS; CAFFEINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; ILEX PARAGUARIENSIS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; PLANT EXTRACTS; TEA;

EID: 82455190653     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: 18793592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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