lophatherum gracile/sarcoma

BACKGROUND Kumaizasa bamboo found in Hokkaido is used for traditional medicine in Japan. The cancer preventive effect of vigorous (multistep) hot water extract of Kumaizasa was examined in relation to immunological conditioning and free radical scavenging activity. METHODS Cytokine induction in

Antitumor activity of bamboo leaf against various transplantable mouse tumor strains, such as Sarcoma 180 and Ehrlich ascites carcinoma has previously been demonstrated by Sakai et al.7) and Yammamoto et al.9). The present investigation was undertaken to determine the antitumor activities of BLE and

Natural products have attracted great interest for some time as alternative methods against cancers by fulfilling immunomodulating properties. In this study, we investigated the activity of hot water extracts (120 °C, >30 min) of Phellinus linteus, fresh leaves of Kumaizasa bamboo and