The influence of fatty acids on normal and transformed human liver cells in culture

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5 A, 1998, Pages 3533-3538

  Davidson, B C ^a   Giangregorio, A ^a   Girao, L A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cancer; Fatty acids; Liver cells

Indexed keywords

ICOSANOID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SATURATED FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ICOSANOID METABOLISM; LIVER CELL CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARACHIDONIC ACID; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELLS, CULTURED; EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACIDS; HUMANS; LINOLEIC ACID; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; OLEIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID;

EID: 0031729903     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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