Chemopreventive agents: Selenium

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 179-192

  Combs Jr , Gerald F ^a   Gray, William P ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cancer; Chemoprevention; Immune system; Selenium; Selenoenzymes

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CARCINOGENESIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; SELENIUM;

EID: 0345310068     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-7258(98)00014-X     Document Type: Review

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