Water-generated negative air ions activate NK cell and inhibit carcinogenesis in mice

Cancer Letters

Volumn 239, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 190-197

  Yamada, Roppei ^a   Yanoma, Syunsuke ^c   Akaike, Makoto ^b   Tsuburaya, Akira ^b   Sugimasa, Yukio ^b   Takemiya, Shoji ^b   Motohashi, Hisahiko ^b   Rino, Yasushi ^a   Takanashi, Yoshinori ^a   Imada, Toshio ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of gastrointestinal surgery ^*  (Japan)

^c Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti tumor activity; Immunologic activation; Physical properties; Water generated negative air ions

Indexed keywords

5 CHLORO 2,4 DIHYDROXYPYRIDINE; ANION; OXONATE POTASSIUM; TEGAFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; WATER GENERATED NEGATIVE AIR ION;

AIR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIONS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; WATER;

EID: 33745678512     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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