Chemopreventive effects of dietary folate on intestinal polyps in Apc+/- Msh2-/- Mice

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 3191-3199

  Song, Jacquelin ^b   Sohn, Kyoung Jin ^a   Medline, Alan ^a   Ash, Colleen ^d   Gallinger, Steven ^a,d   Kim, Young In ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COLON ADENOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA METHYLATION; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; INTESTINE POLYP; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOMA; ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI PROTEIN; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COLON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CPG ISLANDS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DIET; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FOLIC ACID; INTESTINAL POLYPS; INTESTINE, SMALL; METHYLATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS;

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