Intestinal protozoa are hypothesized to stimulate immunosurveillance against colon cancer

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-110

  Juckett, David A ^a,b   Aylsworth, Charles F ^a,b   Quensen, Janet Murphy ^a,b  

^a Barros Research Institute   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CANCER; EIMERIA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION;

ANIMALS; COCCIDIOSIS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EIMERIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE; INTESTINES; JAPAN; MALE; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; EIMERIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 43949144589     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.01.024     Document Type: Article

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