Autophagy therapeutic potential of garlic in human cancer therapy

Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 159-162

  Chu, Yung Lin ^a   Raghu, Rajasekaran ^a   Lu, Kuan Hung ^a   Liu, Chun Ting ^a   Lin, Shu Hsi ^a   Lai, Yi Syuan ^a   Cheng, Wei Cheng ^a   Lin, Shih Hang ^a   Sheen, Lee Yan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Cancer; Complementary therapy; Garlic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894597711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22254110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2225-4110.114895     Document Type: Article

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