The antioxidant and anticancer effects of wild carrot oil extract

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 737-744

  Shebaby, Wassim Nasri ^a   El Sibai, Mirvat ^b   Bodman Smith, Kikki ^a   Karam, Marc Christoph ^c   Mroueh, Mohamad ^b   Daher, Costantine F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

anticancer; antioxidant; breast cancer; colon cancer; Daucus carota

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARROT EXTRACT; ESSENTIAL OIL; ETOPOSIDE; FLAVONOID; METHANOL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER INHIBITION; CARROT; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON CANCER; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; IN VITRO STUDY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTIOXIDANTS; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; DAUCUS CAROTA; FLAVONOIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; PHENOLS; PLANT EXTRACTS;

DAUCUS; DAUCUS CAROTA;

EID: 84876465654     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.4776     Document Type: Article

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