Tumor and mutation suppressing plant extract

Sandra L. Gray
Dwight N. Camper

Document Type Patent

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.