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Radio-protective Effects of the Extracts of Various Medicinal Plants against Human Normal Lung Cells

  • Published : 2002.12.01
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Abstract

Rhapontica uniflora, Platycodon grandiflorum and Solanum tuberosum extracts affected the recovery of radiation-induced damage at all tested doses $(15.6,\;31.3,\;62.5\;and\;125\;{\mu}g/ml)$. The survival rate of pretreatment with extracts was increased by 2 times more than its compared with untreated cells. All tested extracts protected the growh-delay of normal cells and haematological parameters from their radiation-induced fall. In tested extracts, Solanum tuberosum was significantly superior to Platycodon grandiflorum and Rhapontica uniflora in radio-protection activity.

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