Document Type

Patent

Publication Date

4-6-2010

Patent Number

patent number 7691417

Abstract

A compound derived from an extract of vegetative tissue of plants of the Genus Shortia demonstrates antitcarcinogenic potential by inhibiting the growth and development formation of tumors in living tissue in response to an organism known to cause the initiation of tumors in living tissue and by reducing mutation rates in living tissues exposed to a known mutagen.

Application Number

11/217209

Assignees

Clemson University Research Foundation (Anderson, SC, US)

Filing Date

2005-09-01

Primary/U.S. Class

424/725

Other/U.S. Class

424/773, 424/774

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