Promoting potential of a Jamaica quassia extract in a rat medium-term hepatocarcinogenesis bioassay

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1160-1164

  Woo, Gye Hyeong ^a   Shibutani, Makoto ^a   Inoue, Kaoru ^a   Fujimoto, Hitoshi ^a   Takahashi, Miwa ^a   Lee, Kyoung Youl ^a   Hirose, Masao ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

F344 rats; Jamaica quassia extract (JQE); Medium term liver bioassay; Picrasma excelsa, (Swartz) Planchon; Tumor promotion

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; PHENOBARBITAL; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PICRASMA; RAT;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; DIET; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATOCYTES; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; PICRASMA; PLANT EXTRACTS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; QUASSIA; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

ANIMALIA; PICRASMA EXCELSA; QUASSIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34247139201     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2006.12.023     Document Type: Article

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