Effects of neem flowers, Thai and Chinese bitter gourd fruits and sweet basil leaves on hepatic monooxygenases and glutathione S-transferase activities, and in vitro metabolic activation of chemical carcinogens in rats

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 475-484

  Kusamran, W R ^a   Ratanavila, A ^a   Tepsuwan, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN B1; AMINOPYRINE N DEMETHYLASE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; CARCINOGEN; COLOCYNTH; CYTOCHROME P450; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LIVER ENZYME; OCIMUM BASILICUM EXTRACT; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD COMPOSITION; FRUIT; LIVER MICROSOME; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; RAT; VEGETABLE;

AFLATOXIN B1; AMINOPYRINE N-DEMETHYLASE; ANILINE HYDROXYLASE; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; BENZO(A)PYRENE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARCINOGENS; CHINA; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; ENZYME INDUCTION; FRUIT; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LIVER; MALE; MICROSOMES, LIVER; OCIMUM BASILICUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THAILAND; TOXICITY TESTS; VEGETABLES;

ANIMALIA; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BASILICUM; CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS; CUCURBITA; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA; OCIMUM BASILICUM;

EID: 0032101097     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(98)00011-8     Document Type: Article

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