Japanese green tea as a cancer preventive in humans

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue 11 II, 1996, Pages

  Fujiki, Hirota ^a   Suganuma, Masami ^a   Okabe, Sachiko ^a   Komori, Atsumasa ^a   Sueoka, Eisaburo ^a   Sueoka, Naoko ^a   Kozu, Tomoko ^a   Sakai, Yuzo ^a  

^a SAITAMA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; OKADAIC ACID; TAMOXIFEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PREVENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; JAPAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SKIN CANCER; TEA;

EID: 0030439215     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1996.tb03821.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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