Progress on understanding the anticancer mechanisms of medicinal mushroom: Inonotus obliquus

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1571-1578

  Song, Fu Qiang ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Kong, Xiang Shi ^a   Chang, Wei ^a   Song, Ge ^a  

^a HEILONGJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anticancer mechanism; Bioactive compounds; Inonotus obliquus; Medical mushroom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880404396     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2013.14.3.1571     Document Type: Short Survey

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