Screening of venezuelan medicinal plant extracts for cytostatic and cytotoxic activity against tumor cell lines

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 530-539

  Taylor, Peter ^a   Arsenak, Miriam ^a   Abad, María Jesús ^a   Fernández, Ángel ^a   Milano, Balentina ^a   Gonto, Reina ^a   Ruiz, Marie Christine ^a   Fraile, Silvia ^a   Taylor, Sofía ^a   Estrada, Omar ^a   Michelangeli, Fabian ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

anticancer; cytotoxicity; ic.gob.ve; medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

ANNONA SQUAMOSA EXTRACT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BYRSONIMA CRASSIFOLIA EXTRACT; CALOTROPIS GIGANTEA EXTRACT; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA EXTRACT; CLAVIJA LANCIFOLIA EXTRACT; CURATELLA AMERICANA EXTRACT; ESPELETIA SCHULTZII EXTRACT; EUTERPE PRECATORIA EXTRACT; GNETUM NODIFLORUM EXTRACT; HAMELIA PATENS EXTRACT; HELIOTROPIUM INDICUM EXTRACT; HYPTIS DILATATA EXTRACT; JACARANDA COPAIA EXTRACT; JACARANDA OBTUSIFOLIA EXTRACT; PHYSALIS CORDATA EXTRACT; PIPER ARBOREUM EXTRACT; PIPER SAN VICENTENSE EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTIUM HEPTAPHYLLUM EXTRACT; PROTIUM UNIFOLIOLATUM EXTRACT; SIPARUNA GUIANENSIS EXTRACT; TAPIRIRA GUIANENSIS EXTRACT; TITHONIA DIVERSIFOLIA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISMIA CAYENNENSIS EXTRACT; XYLOPIA AROMATICA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANNONA SQUAMOSA; ARTICLE; BARK; BREAST CANCER; BYRSONIMA CRASSIFOLIA; CANCER INHIBITION; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA; CLAVIJA LANCIFOLIA; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURATELLA AMERICANA; CYTOSTASIS; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG SCREENING; ESPELETIA SCHULTZII; EUTERPE PRECATORIA; FLOWER; FRUIT; GNETUM NODIFLORUM; HAMELIA PATENS; HELIOTROPIUM INDICUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPTIS DILATATA; JACARANDA COPAIA; JACARANDA OBTUSIFOLIA; LEUKEMIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSALIS CORDATA; PIPER ARBOREUM; PIPER SAN VICENTENSE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTIUM HEPTAPHYLLUM; PROTIUM UNIFOLIOLATUM; SIPARUNA GUIANENSIS; TAPIRIRA GUIANENSIS; TITHONIA DIVERSIFOLIA; TUMOR CELL LINE; VENEZUELA; VISMIA CAYENNENSIS; XYLOPIA AROMATICA;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; HUMANS; MICE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; VENEZUELA;

ANNONA SQUAMOSA; CALOTROPIS GIGANTEA; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA; CLAVIJA LANCIFOLIA; HAMELIA PATENS; HELIOTROPIUM INDICUM; HYPTIS DILATATA; JACARANDA; JACARANDA COPAIA; PHYSALIS CORDATA; PIPER ARBOREUM; PROTIUM HEPTAPHYLLUM; SIPARUNA GUIANENSIS; TAPIRIRA GUIANENSIS; XYLOPIA AROMATICA;

EID: 84876283636     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.4752     Document Type: Article

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