Affiliation:
1. Biophysics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata – 700 064, India
Abstract
Turmeric extracts contain more than one bioactive component, which have different properties when used to modulate ultraviolet induced genotoxicity. These differences were found depending on the nature and extent of the damage to the bacterial DNA, which indicates the existence of a natural switching process in sensing the damage.
Subject
Complementary and alternative medicine,Plant Science,Drug Discovery,Pharmacology,General Medicine