Bryonia dioica, an antibreast cancer plant: ethnobotanical study
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medicinal Herbs and Ethnomedicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2455-0485
DOI: 10.5455/jmhe.2015.09.023