Lack of tumor promoting activity of capsaicin, a principal pungent ingredient of red pepper, in mouse skin carcinogenesis

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6 A, 1998, Pages 4201-4205

  Park, Kwang Kyun ^a   Chun, Kyung Soo ^b   Yook, Jong I N ^a   Surh, Young Joon ^b  

^a Yonsei University College of Dentistry   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anti tumor promotion; Capsaicin; Hot red pepper; Ornithine decarboxylase; Two stage mouse skin carcinogenesis

Indexed keywords

7,12 DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; ACETONE; CAPSAICIN; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG STRUCTURE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAPILLOMA; PEPPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SKIN DEFECT; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TUMOR PROMOTION;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ACETONE; ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; CAPSICUM; CARCINOGENS; FEMALE; HYPERPLASIA; INFLAMMATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PAPILLOMA; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032439878     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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