Bioactivity evaluation against Artemia salina Leach of medicinal plants used in Brazilian Northeastern folk medicine Avaliação da bioatividade frente à Artemia salina Leach de plantas medicinais utilizadas na medicina popular na Região Nordeste do Brasil
The brine shrimp (Artemia salina Leach) lethality bioassay offers an advantage in standardization and quality control of botanical products. This test is well correlated with antitumor activity (cytotoxicity) and can be used to monitor the activity of bioactive natural products. This paper reports t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
2012-08-01
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| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Biology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842012000300013 |