Human Lactoferrin Inhibits Growth of Solid Tumors and Development of Experimental Metastases in Mice

Cancer Research

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 1994, Pages 2310-2312

  Bezault, JoAnn ^a   Bhimani, Ramesh ^a   Wiprovnick, Jay ^a   Furmanski, Philip ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 METHYLCHOLANTHRENE; GANGLIOTETRAOSYLCERAMIDE; LACTOFERRIN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSARCOMA; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HUMAN; LACTOFERRIN; METHYLCHOLANTHRENE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0028231589     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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