Effect of purified allicin, the major ingredient of freshly crushed garlic, on cancer cell proliferation

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 245-254

  Hirsch, Keren ^a   Danilenko, Michael ^a   Giat, Judith ^a   Miron, Talia ^b   Rabinkov, Aharon ^b   Wilchek, Meir ^b   Mirelman, David ^b   Levy, Joseph ^a   Sharoni, Yoav ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLICIN; GLUTATHIONE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL CYCLE G0 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENCY; FIBROBLAST; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GARLIC; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, ANIMAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SULFINIC ACIDS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ALLIUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0034434470     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327914NC382_14     Document Type: Article

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