Potential agents for cancer and obesity treatment with herbal medicines from the green garden

Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1065-1076

  Park, Jong Pil ^a   Kim, Jin Hee ^a   Park, Moon Ki ^a   Yun, Jong Won ^b  

^a Daegu Haany University   (South Korea)

^b Daegu University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cancer; Herbal medicine; Obesity; Pharmacological effect; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DRUG INTERACTIONS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; NUTRITION; PLANT EXTRACTS; TOXICITY;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CANCER; HERBAL MEDICINES; OBESITY; PHARMACOLOGICAL EFFECTS; SCIENTIFIC STUDIES; STANDARDIZED SAMPLES; THERAPEUTIC AGENTS;

DISEASES;

ALISOL B ACETATE; ALOE EMODIN; ANTIMITOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BAICALIN; CISPLATIN; COPTIS RHIZOME EXTRACT; CORYDALIS EXTRACT; CURCUMAE EXTRACT; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EMODIN; FOLINIC ACID; GINSENOSIDE RG 3; HOUTTUYNIA CORDATA EXTRACT; LINDERA STRYCHIFOLIA EXTRACT; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PLANT EXTRACT; RHEIN; RHEUM OFFICINALE EXTRACT; RHUBARB EXTRACT; RUBUS COREANUM EXTRACT; SCUTELLARIA BAICALENSIS EXTRACT; SCUTELLARIA BARBATA EXTRACT; SIBUTRAMINE; TAMOXIFEN; TETRAHYDROLIPSTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; WIKYUNGTANG EXTRACT;

ANOREXIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CANCER; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HAIR LOSS; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; LINDERA STRYCHIFOLIA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOMA; MEDICINAL PLANT; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; RHIZOME; RUBUS COREANUM; SCUTELLARIA BARBATA; STOMACH CANCER; WIKYUNGTANG;

EID: 84862968759     PISSN: 12268372     EISSN: 19763816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12257-011-0215-3     Document Type: Review

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