Inhibition by wheat bran cereals of the development of aberrant crypt foci and colon tumours

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 517-522

  Alabaster, O ^a   Tang, Z ^a   Shivapurkar, N ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aberrant crypts; Azoxymethane; Colon cancer; Dietary fibre; Fat; Rats

Indexed keywords

AZOXYMETHANE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CEREAL; COLON CANCER; COLON TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY FIBER; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; WHEAT BRAN;

ANIMALS; AZOXYMETHANE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIETARY FIBER; FOOD, FORMULATED; HYPERPLASIA; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0030921931     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(97)00014-8     Document Type: Article

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