Lycopene supplementation prevents the development of spontaneous smooth muscle tumors of the oviduct in Japanese quail

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-189

  Sahin, Kazim ^a   Ozercan, Resat ^a   Onderci, Muhittin ^a   Sahin, Nurhan ^a   Gursu, Mehmet F ^a   Khachik, Frederick ^b   Sarkar, Fazlul H ^c   Munkarah, Adnan ^c   Ali Felimi, Rouba ^c   Kmak, David ^c   Kucuk, Omer ^c  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; LYCOPENE; MALONALDEHYDE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; RETINOL;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERUS MYOMA;

ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CAROTENOIDS; COTURNIX; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; LEIOMYOMA; LIPID PEROXIDATION; OVIDUCTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COTURNIX; COTURNIX COTURNIX; COTURNIX JAPONICA; JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 19944431106     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327914nc5002_8     Document Type: Article

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