Aqueous and ethanolic extract fractions from the Brazilian propolis suppress azoxymethane-induced aberrant crypt foci in rats

Oncology Reports

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 493-499

  Yasui, Yumiko ^a   Miyamoto, Shingo ^b   Kim, Mihye ^a   Kohno, Hiroyuki ^a   Sugie, Shigeyuki ^a   Tanaka, Takuji ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aberrant crypt foci; Aqueous extract; Chemoprevention; Ethanolic extract; Propolis; Rats

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AZOXYMETHANE; CYCLINE; PROPOLIS; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARCINOGEN; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL LABELING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COLON ABERRANT CRYPT FOCI; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THERAPY EFFECT; WISTAR HANNOVER RAT; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COLON TUMOR; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; PRECANCER; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; AZOXYMETHANE; CARCINOGENS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ETHANOL; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROPOLIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 54549113143     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or_00000033     Document Type: Article

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