Chitin or chitin-like glycans as targets for late-term cancer chemoprevention

Cancer Prevention Research

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1519-1522

  Wattenberg, Lee W ^a   Patterson, Steven ^b   Antonides, Jennifer D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZO[A]PYRENE; CHITIN; GLYCAN; HYALURONIC ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; SP 1015; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER PREVENTION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL WALL; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE;

EID: 78650389020     PISSN: 19406207     EISSN: 19406215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-09-0230     Document Type: Note

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