Brahmarasayana protects against Ethyl methanesulfonate or Methyl methanesulfonate induced chromosomal aberrations in mouse bone marrow cells

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Guruprasad, Kanive P ^a   Subramanian, Advait ^a   Singh, Vikram Jeet ^a   Sharma, Raghavendra Sudheer K ^a   Gopinath, Puthiya M ^a   Sewram, Vikash ^b   Varier, Panniyampilly M ^c   Satyamoorthy, Kapaettu ^a  

^a MANIPAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c Arya Vaidya Sala   (India)

Author keywords

Anti clastogenicity; DNA damage and repair; Rasayana

Indexed keywords

BRAHMARASAYANA; DNA; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; EXCISION REPAIR; GENOTOXICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 84864398670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-12-113     Document Type: Article

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