Effect of tea extracts, polyphenols, and epigallocatechin gallate on azoxymethane-induced colon cancer

Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 104-108

  Weisburger, John H ^a   Rivenson, Abraham ^a   Aliaga, Cesar ^a   Reinhardt, Joel ^a   Kelloff, Gary J ^b   Boone, Charles W ^b   Steele, Vernon E ^b   Balentine, Douglas A ^c   Pittman, Brian ^a   Zang, Edith ^a  

^a AMERICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOXYMETHANE; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; POLYPHENOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CANCER; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TEA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031973721     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/00379727-217-44211     Document Type: Article

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