Antitumor activity of astaxanthin and its mode of action

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-65

  Jyonouchi, Harumi ^a   Sun, Sining ^a   Iijima, Koji ^a   Gross, Myron D ^b  

^a UPR   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 METHYLCHOLANTHRENE; ASTAXANTHIN; CAROTENOID; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER IMMUNOLOGY; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DIET; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034028946     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327914NC3601_9     Document Type: Article

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