Biochanin A inhibits breast cancer tumor growth in a murine xenograft model

Pharmaceutical Research

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2158-2163

  Moon, Young Jin ^a   Shin, Beom Soo ^b   An, Guohua ^a   Morris, Marilyn E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Catholic University of Daegu   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biochanin A; Breast cancer xenograft; EGCG; Flavonoid combination; Quercetin

Indexed keywords

BIOCHANIN A; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; QUERCETIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CATECHIN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GENISTEIN; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LIVER; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, NUDE; QUERCETIN; TIME FACTORS; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 49549106229     PISSN: 07248741     EISSN: 1573904X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11095-008-9583-6     Document Type: Article

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