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Mutagenic potential and modulatory effects of the medicinal plant Luehea divaricata (Malvaceae) in somatic cells of Drosophila melanogaster: SMART/wing.
Genetics and molecular research : GMR - 4 Jan 2011
Felício L P, Silva E M, Ribeiro V, Miranda C T, Vieira I L B F, Passos D C S, Ferreira A K S, Vale C R, Lima D C S, Carvalho S, Nunes W B
Abstract excerpt
Luehea divaricata is a native plant of the Brazilian Cerrado, known as "açoita-cavalo". It is used as a popular herbal medicine in the treatment of dysentery, bleeding, arthritis, tumors, ulcers, and gangrenous wounds. Considering that herbal medicines sometimes provoke tumors and/or may prevent mutational events, it is important to study the action of these natural drugs on DNA. Aqueous extract of the bark of L....
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