An approach to functional food: Cancer preventive potential of vegetables and fruits and their active constituents

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue 11 II, 1996, Pages

  Ohigashi, Hajime ^a   Murakami, Akira ^b   Koshimizu, Koichi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG STRUCTURE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FRUIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RAJI CELL; VEGETABLE; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

EID: 0030435318     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1996.tb03814.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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