Transplacental antioxidants inhibit lung tumors in mice exposed to cigarette smoke after birth: A novel preventative strategy?

Current Cancer Drug Targets

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 164-169

  Balansky, R ^a,b   Ganchev, G ^a   Iltcheva, M ^a   Steele, V E ^c   de Flora, S ^b  

^a National Oncology Center Bulgaria   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Ascorbic acid; Cigarette smoke; Emphysema; Lung cancer; N acetyl L cysteine; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CIGARETTE SMOKE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLADDER EPITHELIUM; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER PREVENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPHYSEMA; EPITHELIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LUNG ADENOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROADENOMA; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; SURVIVAL;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SMOKE; SURVIVAL; TOBACCO;

EID: 84856447377     PISSN: 15680096     EISSN: 18735576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156800912799095153     Document Type: Article

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