Intermittent Dosing with Oltipraz: Relationship between Chemoprevention of Aflatoxin-induced Tumorigenesis and Induction of Glutathione S-Transferases

Cancer Research

Volumn 55, Issue 19, 1995, Pages 4319-4324

  Primiano, Thomas ^a   Egner, Patricia A ^a   Sutter, Thomas R ^a   Kensler, Thomas W ^a   Kelloff, Gary J ^b   Roebuck, B D ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; OLTIPRAZ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME INDUCTION; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AFLATOXIN B1; ANIMAL; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CARCINOGENS; ENZYME INDUCTION; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; ISOENZYMES; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; PYRAZINES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029048396     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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