Effects of dietary folate on the development and progression of mammary tumors in rats

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1603-1612

  Kotsopoulos, Joanne ^a   Medline, Alan ^b   Renlund, Richard ^a,b   Sohn, Kyoung Jin ^b   Martin, Rochelle ^c   Hwang, Stephen W ^b,c   Lu, Suying ^a   Archer, Michael C ^a   Kim, Young In ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; METHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RISK REDUCTION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR PROMOTION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; DIET; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; METHYLNITROSOUREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 24144493716     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgi117     Document Type: Article

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