Protection by tea against UV-A + B-induced skin cancers in hairless mice

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 71-75

  Record, Ian R ^a   Dreosti, Ivor E ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER REGRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; MILK; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PAPILLOMA; SKIN CANCER; SOLAR RADIATION; TEA;

ANIMALIA; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032416649     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635589809514721     Document Type: Article

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