Seaweed carotenoids for cancer therapeutics

Handbook of Anticancer Drugs from Marine Origin

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 185-203

  Boominathan, Meganathan ^a   Mahesh, Ayyavu ^a  

^a MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cancer; Carotenoids; Fucoxanthin; Seaweed; carotene

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944530079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07145-9_10     Document Type: Chapter

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