In vivo antimetastatic action of ginseng protopanaxadiol saponins is based on their intestinal bacterial metabolites after oral administration

Oncology Research

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 411-417

  Wakabayashi, Chisato ^a   Hasegawa, Hideo ^a,b   Murata, Jun ^a,b   Saiki, Ikuo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b Happy World Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ginsenosides; Intestinal bacterial metabolites; Invasion; Metastasis; Panax ginseng

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; GINSENOSIDE; SAPONIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CANCER INVASION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOTION; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL MELANOMA; FEMALE; GINSENG; INTESTINE; LUNG TUMOR; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOLOGY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GINSENOSIDES; INTESTINES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PANAX; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SAPONINS;

EID: 0031303557     PISSN: 09650407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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