Failure of the cultivated mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) to induce tumors in the A/J mouse lung tumor model

Cancer Letters

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-85

  Pilegaard, Kirsten ^a   Kristiansen, Eva ^a   Meyer, Otto A ^a   Gry, Jørn ^a  

^a National Food Agency of Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

4 (carboxy)phenylhydrazine; A J mouse; Agaricus bisporus

Indexed keywords

4 CARBOXYPHENYLHYDRAZINE; CARCINOGEN; HYDRAZINE DERIVATIVE; PHENYLHYDRAZINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; LUNG ADENOMA; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG TUMOR; MOUSE; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOMA; AGARICUS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; PHENYLHYDRAZINES;

AGARICUS BISPORUS; ANIMALIA; BASIDIOMYCOTA;

EID: 0030856325     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(97)00292-9     Document Type: Article

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