Difluoromethylornithine is effective as both a preventive and therapeutic agent against the development of UV carcinogenesis in SKH hairless mice

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 83-88

  Fischer, Susan M ^a   Lee, Marilyn ^a   Lubet, Ronald A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADENOSYLMETHIONINE DECARBOXYLASE; BROXURIDINE; DIAMINOBENZIDINE; DRINKING WATER; EFLORNITHINE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FLUORINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; ORNITHINE DERIVATIVE; POLYAMINE DERIVATIVE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE; TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE MARKER; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SKIN CANCER; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

EID: 0035137273     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/22.1.83     Document Type: Article

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