Moringa oleifera as an anti-cancer agent against breast and colorectal cancer cell lines

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Al Asmari, Abdulrahman Khazim ^a   Albalawi, Sulaiman Mansour ^a   Athar, Md Tanwir ^a   Khan, Abdul Quaiyoom ^a   Al Shahrani, Hamoud ^a   Islam, Mozaffarul ^a  

^a Prince Sultan Military Medical City   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOSE; EUGENOL; HEXADECONOIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ISOPROPYL ISOTHIOCYNATE; MORINGA OLEIFERA EXTRACT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BARK; BREAST CANCER CELL LINE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; CASE REPORT; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; COLONY FORMATION; COLORECTAL CANCER CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; G2 PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MORINGA OLEIFERA; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL MOTION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; METABOLISM; SAUDI ARABIA; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; G2 PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; HUMANS; MORINGA OLEIFERA; PLANT BARK; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; SAUDI ARABIA; SEEDS;

EID: 84942591086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135814     Document Type: Article

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