Effects of Green Tea on Colonic Aberrant Crypt Foci and Proliferative Indexes in Rats

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 239-243

  Jia, Xudong ^a   Han, Chi ^a,b  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

1,2 DIMETHYLHYDRAZINE; CYCLINE; PROTEIN P21;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME NOR; COLON TUMOR; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRECANCER; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SILVER STAINING; TEA; WEANING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

1,2-DIMETHYLHYDRAZINE; ANIMAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIVISION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; ONCOGENE PROTEIN P21(RAS); PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SILVER STAINING; TEA; WEANING;

EID: 0035233764     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327914nc392_13     Document Type: Article

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