Effects of Sasa Health®, extract of bamboo grass leaves, on spontaneous mammary tumourigenesis in SHN mice

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1 A, 1998, Pages 153-158

  Tsunoda, Satoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Kazutoshi ^b   Sakamoto, Sinobu ^c   Inoue, Hiroyuki ^a   Nagasawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antitumour agent; Bamboo grass leaves; Mammary tumour; Mice

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT EXTRACT; PROLACTIN; SASA HEALTH; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THYMIDINE KINASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PREVENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HYDROLYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMOPREVENTION; CHLOROPHYLLIDES; ESTRUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; ORGAN SIZE; PLANT EXTRACTS; POACEAE; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROLACTIN; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031920292     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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