In vitro β-carotene toxicity for human coloncancer cells

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 221-230

  Iftikhar, Shaukat ^a   Lietz, Helen ^b   Mobarhan, Sohrab ^b   Frommel, Thomas O ^b  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; COLON CANCER; CYTOTOXICITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL;

BETA CAROTENE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FURANS; HUMANS; SOLUBILITY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0029950876     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635589609514446     Document Type: Article

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