No clastogenic activity of Caesalpinia ferrea Mart. (Leguminosae) extract on bone marrow cells of Wistar rats
Extracts of the fruits of Caesalpinia ferrea Mart. (Leguminosae) are widely consumed in folkloric medicine in Brazil and several other countries without any genetic toxicity evaluation. In this study we investigated, the clastogenic and cytotoxic potential of the crude aqueous extract of the fruits...
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Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Genética
2006-01-01
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Series: | Genetics and Molecular Biology |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572006000200028 |