Composition, Efficacy, and Safety of Spinach Extracts

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 222-231

  Lomnitski, Liat ^a   Bergman, Margalit ^a   Nyska, Abraham ^b   Ben Shaul, Varda ^a   Grossman, Shlomo ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; BUTYLCRESOL; FLAVONOID; LIPOXYGENASE; PLANT EXTRACT; SPINACH EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ALLERGY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN PROTECTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONTACT SENSITIVITY; DIET; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EYE IRRITATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PROSTATE CANCER; RABBIT; RAT; SKIN CANCER; SPINACH; TEA; VEGETABLE;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SPINACIA OLERACEA; UNIDENTIFIED AGENTS;

EID: 0242565796     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327914NC4602_16     Document Type: Article

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