Uncaria tomentosa Exerts Extensive Anti-Neoplastic Effects against the Walker-256 Tumour by Modulating Oxidative Stress and Not by Alkaloid Activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Dreifuss, Arturo Alejandro ^a   Bastos Pereira, Amanda Leite ^a   Fabossi, Isabella Aviles ^a   Lívero, Francislaine Aparecida dos Reis ^a   Stolf, Aline Maria ^a   Alves de Souza, Carlos Eduardo ^a   de Gomes, Liana Oliveira ^a   Constantin, Rodrigo Polimeni ^b   Furman, Aline Emmer Ferreira ^a   Strapasson, Regiane Lauriano Batista ^a   Teixeira, Simone ^c   Zampronio, Aleksander Roberto ^a   Muscará, Marcelo Nicolás ^c   Stefanello, Maria Elida Alves ^a   Acco, Alexandra ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b University of Maringá   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BUTANOL; CATALASE; CHLOROFORM; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; OXINDOLE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCARIA TOMENTOSA EXTRACT; UREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BARK; BIOCHEMISTRY; BREAST SARCOMA; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INOCULATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER HOMOGENATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TUMOR VOLUME; UNCARIA TOMENTOSA;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA 256, WALKER; CAT'S CLAW; CATALASE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84873600656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054618     Document Type: Article

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