Cancer chemopreventive activity of naphthoquinones and their analogs from Avicennia plants

Cancer Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 135-139

  Itoigawa, Masataka ^a,b   Ito, Chihiro ^a   Tan, Hugh T W ^c   Okuda, Masato ^d   Tokuda, Harukuni ^d   Nishino, Hoyoku ^d   Furukawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti tumor promoting effect; Avicennia plants; Cancer chemopreventive agents; Epstein Barr virus activation; Naphthoquinones; Two stage mouse skin carcinogenesis

Indexed keywords

1,4 NAPHTHOQUINONE DERIVATIVE; 2 [2' (2' HYDROXY)PROPYL]NAPHTHO[1,2 B]FURAN 4,5 DIONE; AVICENNIA EXTRACT; AVICENOL A; AVICENOL C; AVICENOL D; AVICENONE; AVICEQUINONE A; AVICEQUINONE B; AVICEQUINONE C; DEHYDROLAPACHONE; HYDROXYISO BETA LAPACHONE; LAPACHENOLE; LAPACHOL; NAPHTHO[1,2 B]FURAN 4,5 DIONE; PLANT EXTRACT; STENOCARPOQUINONE A; STENOCARPOQUINONE B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVICENNIA; CANCER PREVENTION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SCREENING; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RAJI CELL; SKIN; TUMOR PROMOTION;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CARCINOGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NAPHTHOQUINONES; PAPILLOMA; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

ACANTHACEAE; AVICENNIA; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4;

EID: 0035965937     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(01)00707-8     Document Type: Article

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