A low carbohydrate, high protein diet slows tumor growth and prevents cancer initiation

Cancer Research

Volumn 71, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4484-4493

  Ho, Victor W ^a   Leung, Kelvin ^a   Hsu, Anderson ^a   Luk, Beryl ^a   Lai, June ^a   Shen, Sung Yuan ^a   Minchinton, Andrew I ^c   Waterhouse, Dawn ^d   Bally, Marcel B ^d   Lin, Wendy ^e   Nelson, Brad H ^e   Sly, Laura M ^b   Krystal, Gerald ^a  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^e BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOSE; CELECOXIB; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LACTIC ACID; TEMSIROLIMUS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LEWIS CARCINOMA; LIFESPAN; LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIET; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DIET; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR GROWTH; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY PROTEINS; FEMALE; HCT116 CELLS; HUMANS; INSULIN; LACTIC ACID; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H;

EID: 79959860165     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-3973     Document Type: Article

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