A Natural Antioxidant Mixture from Spinach Does Not Have Estrogenic or Antiestrogenic Activity in Immature CD-1 Mice

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 133, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3584-3587

  Lomnitski, Liat ^a   Padilla Banks, Elizabeth ^c   Jefferson, Wendy N ^c   Nyska, Abraham ^b   Grossman, Shlomo ^a   Newbold, Retha R ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Environmental estrogens; Flavonoids; Phytochemicals; Uterotrophic bioassay

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; ANTIOXIDANT; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLAVONOID; GENISTEIN; LUCIFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; REPORTER GENE; SPINACH; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UTERUS WEIGHT;

ANIMALIA; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 0242409408     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/133.11.3584     Document Type: Article

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