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SUBMITTER: Soundararajan R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3359694 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM 20120513
Momordica charantia (bitter gourd) has been used in the traditional system of medicine for the treatment of various diseases. Anticancer activity of M. charantia extracts has been demonstrated by numerous in vitro and in vivo studies. In the present study, we investigated the differentiation inducing potential of fractionated M. charantia seed extracts in human myeloid HL60 cells. We found that the HL60 cells treated with the fractionated seed extracts differentiated into granulocytic lineage as ...[more]