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The effect of willow leaf extracts on human leukemic cells in vitro
Hany A El-Shemy1, Ahmed M Aboul-Enein, Mostafa I Aboul-Enein
1Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. helshemy@hotmail.com
Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
|August 5, 2003
Abstract:
The young developing leaves of willow (Salix safsaf, Salicaceae) trees have antileukemic activity. After a 24-h incubation in vitro, the crude water extracts of the leaves killed a majority of the blasts of acute myeloid leukemia (AML, 73.8%).