Medicinal plants growing in the Judea region: Network approach for searching potential therapeutic targets

Network Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 84-94

  Budovsky, Arie ^a,b   Fraifeld, Vadim E ^b  

^a Judea Regional Research and Development Center   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Age related diseases; Chemotypes; Human targets; Judea region; Medicinal plants; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007082808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22208879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.0000/issn-2220-8879-networkbiology-2012-v2-0010     Document Type: Article

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