Mutagenicity and antimutagenicity of Thai medicinal plants.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-9561-8_47

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Mutagenicity and antimutagenicity of Thai medicinal plants.

Basic life sciences - 1 Jan 1990

Rojanapo W, Tepsuwan A, Siripong P

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Crude extracts and partially purified as well as purified fractions were prepared from three Thai medicinal plants, namely, Acanthus ebracteatus Vahl, Plumbago indica Linn, and Rhinacanthus nasuthus Kurz, and then tested for their mutagenic and antimutagenic potentials using the Salmonella/micros...

Topics

Aniline Hydroxylase
Animals
Biotransformation
Liver
Mutation
Plant Extracts
Plants, Medicinal
Rats
Salmonella typhimurium
Thailand

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