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Article: Traditional Australian medicinal plants: screening for activity against human cancer cell lines.(Clinical report)
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- Journal of the Australian Traditional-Medicine Society
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Abstract
Extracts of different Eremophila, Myoporum (Myoporaceae) and Prostanthera (Lamiaceae) plant species, important in the traditional medicine of Australian Aboriginal people, were investigated for activity against a number of cancer cell lines. Extracts from E. duttonii and E. sturtii species showed the strongest differential activity, with weak differential activity observed in other Myoporaceae extracts.
Keywords: Anticancer; Ethnopharmacological screen; Australian plants; Eremophila.
Introduction
Plant-derived medicines have been utilised for traditional healthcare in many indigenous cultures worldwide for thousands of years, ...