Inhibitory Effect of Apigenin, a Plant Flavonoid, on Epidermal Ornithine Decarboxylase and Skin Tumor Promotion in Mice

Cancer Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 499-502

  Wei, Huachen ^a   Tye, Laura ^a   Bresnick, Edward ^a   Birt, Diane F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIGENIN; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TUMOR; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ANIMAL; CHAMOMILE; COCARCINOGENESIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INDUCTION; EPIDERMIS; FLAVONES; MICE; OILS, VOLATILE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PAPILLOMA; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE;

EID: 0025176844     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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