Cancer chemopreventive agents in plants - A continuing challenge

Planta Medica

Volumn 74, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1523-1525

  Gescher, Andreas J ^a   Gerhäuser, Clarissa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLUEBERRY EXTRACT; DIFLUORMETHYLORNITHINE; DNA; GRAPE SEED EXTRACT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; ORNITHINE DERIVATIVE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RESVERATROL; STILBENE; SULINDAC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOMA; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; BLUEBERRY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPIGENETICS; GRAPE; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS;

EID: 56249145702     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1088305     Document Type: Editorial

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