Prostate cancer chemoprevention by green tea: In vitro and in vivo inhibition of testosterone-mediated induction of ornithine decarboxylase

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2115-2120

  Gupta, Sanjay ^a   Ahmad, Nihal ^a   Mohan, Rajiv R ^a   Husain, Mirza M ^a   Mukhtar, Hasan ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYPHENOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PREVENTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TEA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; ENZYME INDUCTION; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ORCHIECTOMY; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PHENOLS; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLYMERS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; TEA; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR STEM CELL ASSAY;

EID: 0033135024     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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