Allium vegetables and organosulfur compounds: Do they help prevent cancer?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 893-902

  Bianchini, Franca ^a   Vainio, Harri ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Allium; Cancer prevention; Chemoprevention; Garlic; Organosulfur compounds; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

ALLYL COMPOUND; CARCINOGEN; CYTOCHROME P450; ENZYME; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; ORGANOSULFUR DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHIVE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DNA ADDUCT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESOPHAGUS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FORESTOMACH; GARLIC; HYPOTHESIS; LEEK; LUNG; MAMMARY GLAND; METABOLISM; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; ONION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; TOXICITY; TUMOR CELL LINE; VEGETABLE;

ALLIUM; ALLIUM CEPA; ALLIUM PORRUM; ALLIUM SATIVUM; ALLIUM SCHOENOPRASUM; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034774806     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109893     Document Type: Review

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