Essential oil constituents: Biodiversity and their applicability for cancer therapy

Antitumor Potential and other Emerging Medicinal Properties of Natural Compounds

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 285-300

  Bezerra, Daniel P ^a   Costa, Emmanoel V ^a   Nogueira, Paulo Cesar L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

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EID: 84929522059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6214-5_19     Document Type: Chapter

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