Acute local inflammation potentiates tumor growth in mice

Cancer Letters

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 115-120

  Raz, Amiram ^a   Levine, Galit ^a   Khomiak, Yelena ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cancer; Carrageenan; Cell cycle; Inflammation; Tumor growth

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CARRAGEENAN; INDOMETACIN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GROWTH ACCELERATION; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOMA, LEWIS LUNG; CARRAGEENAN; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EDEMA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033955852     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(99)00329-8     Document Type: Article

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