Inhibition of growth and metastasis of human gastric cancer implanted in nude mice by d-limonene

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2140-2144

  Lu, Xiao Guang ^a   Zhan, Li Bin ^a   Feng, Bing An ^a   Qu, Ming Yang ^a   Yu, Li Hua ^a   Xie, Ji Hong ^b  

^a DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Dalian Medical Science Institute   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; LIMONENE; VASCULOTROPIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOHEXENE DERIVATIVE; TERPENE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFICACY; IN VIVO STUDY; INCIDENCE; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS INHIBITION; MICROVASCULATURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH WALL; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; APOPTOSIS; CYCLOHEXENES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TERPENES; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 4043135688     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v10.i14.2140     Document Type: Article

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