Slow but steady progress in cancer chemoprevention with phenethyl isothiocyanate: Fulfilled promises and translational challenges

Nutraceuticals and Cancer

Volumn 9789400726307, Issue , 2012, Pages 231-258

  Powolny, Anna A ^a   Bommareddy, Ajay ^b   Singh, Shivendra V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2630-7_12     Document Type: Chapter

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