A comparison of the anticancer activities of dietary β-carotene, canthaxanthin and astaxanthin in mice in vivo

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3 A, 1999, Pages 1849-1853

  Chew, Boon P ^a   Park, Jean Soon ^a   Wong, Mun Wah ^a   Wong, Teri S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carotene; Astaxanthin; Canthaxathin; Mammary tumor

Indexed keywords

ASTAXANTHIN; BETA CAROTENE; CANTHAXANTHIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET THERAPY; ELEMENTAL DIET; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BETA CAROTENE; CANTHAXANTHIN; CELL MEMBRANE; DIET; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; FEMALE; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 0032801585     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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