Population thiamine status and varying cancer rates between Western, Asian and African countries

Anticancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3 B, 2000, Pages 2245-2248

  Boros, Laszlo G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Endocrinology and Metabolism   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer rates; Nucleic acid ribose synthesis; Nutrition; Thiaminase; Thiamine; Transketolase

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; RIBOSE; THIAMINASE; THIAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICA; ASIA; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CEREAL; DIET; EUROPE; FISH; FLOUR; HUMAN; INSECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VEGETABLE; VITAMIN METABOLISM; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ASIA; DIET SURVEYS; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY PROTEINS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENERGY INTAKE; ENZYME INDUCTION; EUROPE; FISHES; HUMANS; HYDROLASES; MEAT; NEOPLASMS; NORTH AMERICA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY; RNA, NEOPLASM; THIAMINE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATE; TRANSKETOLASE;

EID: 0033898420     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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