Effects of the phytochemicals, curcumin and quercetin, upon azoxymethane-induced colon cancer and 7, 12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene-induced mammary cancer in rats

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1305-1311

  Pereira, Michael A ^a,b   Grubbs, Clinton J ^c   Barnes, Leta H ^a   Li, Hong ^b   Olson, Greg R ^d   Eto, Isao ^c   Juliana, Margaret ^c   Whitaker, Laura M ^c   Kelloff, Gary J ^e   Steele, Vernon E ^e   Lubet, Ronald A ^e  

^a Environmental Health Research and Testing   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d Pathology Associates Inc   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

7,12 DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AZOXYMETHANE; CURCUMIN; QUERCETIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED CANCER; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMALL INTESTINE CANCER;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; AZOXYMETHANE; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOGENS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CURCUMIN; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; QUERCETIN; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0029947057     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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