Antimetastatic effects of Phyllanthus on human lung (A549) and breast (MCF-7) cancer cell lines.

BACKGROUND: Current chemotherapeutic drugs kill cancer cells mainly by inducing apoptosis. However, they become ineffective once cancer cell has the ability to metastasize, hence the poor prognosis and high mortality rate. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the antimetastatic poten...

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Main Authors: Sau Har Lee, Indu Bala Jaganath, Seok Mui Wang, Shamala Devi Sekaran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3116853?pdf=render