Efficacy of the Chinese traditional medicinal herb Celastrus orbiculatus Thunb on human hepatocellular carcinoma in an orthothopic fluorescent nude mouse model

Anticancer Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1213-1220

  Wang, Maorong ^a,b   Zhang, Xin ^b   Xiong, Xi ^b   Yang, Zhiguo ^b   Sun, Yu ^c   Yang, Zhijian ^c   Hoffman, Robert M ^d,e   Liu, Yanqing ^a,f  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b The Jingdu hospital of Nanjing   (China)

^c Origin Biosciences Inc   (China)

^d ANTICANCER INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^f YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Nude mice; Orthotopic models; Red fluorescent protein; Traditional Chinese medicinal herb

Indexed keywords

CELASTRUS ORBICULATUS THUNB EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; OXALIPLATIN; PLANT EXTRACT; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELASTRUS; CELASTRUS ORBICULATUS THUNB; CHINESE MEDICINE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HERB; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELASTRUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; ORGANOPLATINUM COMPOUNDS; PLANT EXTRACTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 84859942928     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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