Combination of melatonin and tamoxifen as a chemoprophylaxis against N-nitroso-N-methylurea-induced rat mammary tumors

Cancer Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 59-66

  Kothari, Ami ^a   Borges, Anita ^a   Ingle, Arvind ^a   Kothari, Lalita ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Chemoprophylaxis; Mammary tumors; Melatonin; N nitroso N methylurea; Tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

DNA; MELATONIN; METHYLNITROSOUREA; TAMOXIFEN; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOGENS; FEMALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MELATONIN; METHYLNITROSOUREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMALIA; TRITIUM;

EID: 0031014283     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(96)04493-X     Document Type: Article

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