Effect of a vegan diet on biomarkers of chemoprevention in females

Human & Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 821-825

  Verhagen, H ^a   Rauma, A L ^b   Torronen R ^b   de Vogel, N ^a   Bruijntjes Rozier, G C D M ^a   Dreve, M A ^a   Bogaards, J J P ^a   Mykkanen H ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

biomarkers; chemoprevention; glutathione S transferase ; Keywords: vegan food; micronu baseline micronuclei; nor in the number of mitomycin clei; single strand breaks

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MITOMYCIN C; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FRUIT; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETABLE; VEGETARIAN DIET;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOPREVENTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET, VEGETARIAN; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELECTROPHORESIS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 0029809265     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096032719601501005     Document Type: Article

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