Aloe vera induced biomimetic assemblage of nucleobase into nanosized particles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Chauhan, Arun ^a   Zubair, Swaleha ^a   Sherwani, Asif ^a   Owais, Mohammad ^a  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOE VERA EXTRACT; FLUOROURACIL; NANOPARTICLE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CELL STRAIN HT29; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ALOE; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; KINETICS; PLANT LEAF;

ALOE VERA;

ALOE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; CACO-2 CELLS; CELL CYCLE; FLUOROURACIL; HT29 CELLS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOPARTICLES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES;

EID: 84857822688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032049     Document Type: Article

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