Allium vegetables and the potential for chemoprevention of cancer

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 401, Issue , 1996, Pages 171-177

  Wargovich, Michael J ^a   Uda, Naoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CARCINOGENESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETABLE;

ALLIUM;

EID: 0029792651     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0399-2_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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