Bifidobacterium longum and lactulose suppress azoxymethane-induced colonic aberrant crypt foci in rats

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 517-521

  Challa, Anjana ^a   Rao, D Ramkishan ^a   Chawan, Chandramohan B ^a   Shackelford, Louis ^a  

^a ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOXYMETHANE; CELL MARKER; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LACTULOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIET; INTESTINE CRYPT; LACTOBACILLUS BIFIDUS; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; AZOXYMETHANE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOGENS; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIARRHEA; DIET; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; ISOENZYMES; LACTULOSE; LIVER; MALE; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0031417347     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/18.3.517     Document Type: Article

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