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Cytotoxicity

08/11/2018 / By RJ Jhonson

Several Nigerian ethnomedicine herbs show remarkable cytotoxic activity on cancer cells

Researchers found that two plants used in Nigerian ethnomedicine have stronger cytotoxic activity than cyclophosphamide, a drug used in chemotherapy. The study published in the journal BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine initially looked at 31 plants before it singled out Macaranga barteri and Calliandra portoricensis for their anti-cancer effects. The researchers used two assays to […]

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