Plasma antioxidant vitamins and carotenoids in five Japanese populations with varied mortality from gastric cancer

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-61

  Tsubono, Yoshitaka ^a,b   Tsugane, Shoichiro ^a   Gey, K Fred ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CAROTENE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; LYCOPENE; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 0032837556     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327914NC340108     Document Type: Article

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