Antioxidant activity and cytotoxicity of the edible mushroom, pleurotus cystidiosus against hep-2 carcinoma cells

Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 106-113

  Menikpurage, Inoka P ^a   Soysa, S S S B D P ^a   Abeytunga, D T U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Abalone; DPPH radical scavenging activity; LDH activity; MTT; Mushroom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865298772     PISSN: 13914588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4038/jnsfsr.v40i2.4438     Document Type: Article

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