Effect of Dietary Undegraded Carrageenan on Colon Carcinogenesis in F344 Rats Treated with Azoxymethane or Methylnitrosourea

Cancer Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1978, Pages 4427-4430

  Watanabe, Kenshi ^a   Reddy, Bandaru S ^a   Wong, Ching Q ^a   Weisburger, John H ^a  

^a AMERICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOXYMETHANE; CARRAGEENAN; METHYLNITROSOUREA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUTOPSY; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOMA; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CARCINOMA; DRUG COMPARISON; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG INTERACTION; DRUG TOXICITY; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; INTOXICATION; LARGE INTESTINE; MICROSCOPY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RAT; RECTAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMAL; AZO COMPOUNDS; AZOXYMETHANE; CARRAGEENAN; CELLULOSE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIETARY FIBER; FEMALE; METHYLNITROSOUREA; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NITROSOUREA COMPOUNDS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0018125180     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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