Detection of weak estrogenic flavonoids using a recombinant yeast strain and a modified MCF7 cell proliferation assay

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 622-629

  Breinholt, Vibeke ^a   Larsen, John Christian ^a  

^a DANISH VETERINARY AND FOOD ADMINISTRATION   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIGENIN; BIOCHANIN A; DAIDZEIN; EQUOL; FLAVONOID; GENISTEIN; KAEMPFEROL; NARINGENIN; PHLORETIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; HORMONAL CARCINOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; SCREENING TEST; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; YEASTS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031831117     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx970170y     Document Type: Article

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