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Modulatory effect of Palicourea coriacea (Rubiaceae) against damage induced by doxorubicin in somatic cells of Drosophila melanogaster.
Genetics and molecular research : GMR - 15 Jun 2010
Passos D C S, Ferreira H D, Vieira I L F B, Nunes W B, Felício L P, Silva E M, Vale C R, Duarte S R, Silva E S, Carvalho S
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Palicourea coriacea, popularly known as "douradinha", is a medicinal plant from the Brazilian Cerrado region used in folk medicine to treat kidney and urethral stones and kidney inflammation. We evaluated the cytotoxic, genotoxic, and possible antigenotoxic activities of an aqueous extract of P. coriacea on somatic cells of Drosophila melanogaster, using the somatic mutation and recombination test. We used...
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