Exceptional chemopreventive activity of low-dose dehydroepiandrosterone in the rat mammary gland

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1724-1726

  McCormick, David L ^a   Rao, Kandala V N ^a   Johnson, William D ^a   Bowman Gram, Teresa A ^a   Steele, Vernon E ^b   Lubet, Ronald A ^b   Kelloff, Gary J ^b  

^a IIT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; METHYLNITROSOUREA; PRASTERONE; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MIXTURE; FEMALE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; MAMMARY GLAND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CARBENOXOLONE; CARCINOGENS; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DIET; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; METHYLNITROSOUREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 0029918388     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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