Is garlic a promising food for benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer?

Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1319-1323

  Devrim, Erdinç ^a   Durak, Ilker ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Garlic; Natural foods; Nutrition; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT;

ANIMAL; GARLIC; HUMAN; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATE TUMOR; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTIOXIDANTS; GARLIC; HUMANS; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

ALLIUM SATIVUM;

EID: 36649012382     PISSN: 16134125     EISSN: 16134133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.200600302     Document Type: Review

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