The effect of low and high doses of β-carotene and exposure to cigarette smoke on the lungs of ferrets

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 88-90

  Wolf, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

carotene; Cigarettee smoke; Lung tissue; Retinoic acid

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE; CIGARETTE SMOKE; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN C JUN; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FERRET; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BETA CAROTENE; FERRETS; LUNG; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

MUSTELA;

EID: 0036196170     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1301/00296640260042757     Document Type: Short Survey

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