Anti-tumor effect of Lentinus edodes mycelia using a rat model with high lung metastasis (GKS-HL) established in our department

Biotherapy

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 605-611

  Itoh, Motohiro ^a   Sano, Jun ^a   Sugiyama, Yasuyuki ^a   Kunieda, Katsuyuki ^a   Saji, Shigetoyo ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti tumor effect; GKS HL; High lung metastatic model; Lentinus edodes mycelia; Peritoneal carcinomatous model

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIER; LENTINUS EDODES EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; LUNG METASTASIS; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM TUMOR; RAT; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0036865608     PISSN: 09142223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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