Inhibitory Effect of Green Tea on the Growth of Established Skin Papillomas in Mice

Cancer Research

Volumn 52, Issue 23, 1992, Pages 6657-6665

  Reuhl, Kenneth R ^a   Huang, Mou Tuan ^a   Chang, Richard ^a   Ma, Wei ^a   Ferraro, Thomas ^a   Yang, Chung S ^a   Conney, Allan H ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; POLYPHENOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN PAPILLOMA; TEA; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT GAIN;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ANIMAL; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; FEMALE; FLAVONES; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MICE; PAPILLOMA; PHENOLS; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLYMERS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TEA; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE;

EID: 0026469016     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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