The anticancer effect of saffron in two p53 isogenic colorectal cancer cell lines

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bajbouj, Khuloud ^a   Schulze Luehrmann, Jan ^b   Diermeier, Stefanie ^b   Amin, Amr ^a,c   Schneider Stock, Regine ^a,b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

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EID: 84861423607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-12-69     Document Type: Article

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