Anticancer effects of red beet pigments

Red Beet Biotechnology: Food and Pharmaceutical Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 125-154

  Kapadia, Govind J ^a   Rao, G Subba ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Global Technology Resource Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DRUG PRODUCTS; FREE RADICALS; PLANT EXTRACTS;

ACTIVE CONSTITUENTS; ANTI-CANCER MECHANISM; ANTI-TUMOR ACTIVITIES; ANTICANCER ACTIVITIES; CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS; EXPERIMENTAL MODELS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGING ACTIVITY; LABORATORY ANIMALS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 84892443905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3458-0_7     Document Type: Chapter

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