Acta Pharmaceutica Turcica, vol.40, no.2, pp.93-98, 1998 (Scopus)
Essential oils of various plant species rich in carvacrol have several ethnomedical uses for various diseases in Turkey. Carvacrol, which was obtained by fractional distillation of Origanun onites L essential oil was tested for lung tumors induced by DMBA in rats in vivo and it was found to have strong antitumor activity at 0.1 mg·kg-1 i.p. Although the mechanism of action of antitumor activity of carvacrol was not investigated in this study, evidences for an inhibitory effect on angiogenesis were observed.