Lead phytochemicals for anticancer drug development

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue November 2016, 2016, Pages

  Singh, Sukhdev ^a   Sharma, Bhupender ^a   Kanwar, Shamsher S ^a   Kumar, Ashok ^a  

^a HIMACHAL PRADESH UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Anticancer phytochemicals; Cancer; Druggability evaluation; Limitations of anticancer drugs

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007360184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01667     Document Type: Review

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