Garlic and associated allyl sulfur components inhibit N-methyl-N-nitrosourea induced rat mammary carcinogenesis 1

Cancer Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 199-204

  Schaffer, Eric M ^a   Liu, Jin Zhou ^a   Green, Jeffrey ^a   Dangler, Charles A ^a   Milner, John A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diallyl disulfide; DNA adducts; Garlic; Mammary tumors; N methyl N nitrosourea; S allyl cysteine

Indexed keywords

6 O METHYLGUANINE; ALLYL COMPOUND; ALLYL SULFIDE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DIALLYL DISULFIDE; METHYLNITROSOUREA; PLANT EXTRACT; S ALLYLCYSTEINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA ALKYLATION; DRUG INDUCED CANCER; FEMALE; GARLIC; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALLYL COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CARCINOGENS; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; EATING; FEMALE; GARLIC; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; METHYLNITROSOUREA; PLANT OILS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029936481     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(96)04160-2     Document Type: Article

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