Evaluation of chemopreventive effects of Acanthus ilicifolius against azoxymethane-induced aberrant crypt foci in the rat colon

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Almagrami, Amel A ^a   Alshawsh, Mohammed A ^a   Saif Ali, Riyadh ^b   Shwter, Abdrabuh ^a   Salem, Sameer D ^b   Abdulla, Mahmood A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b Department of Biochemistry   (Yemen)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHUS ILICIFOLIUS EXTRACT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLAVANOID; FLUOROURACIL; GALLIC ACID; PHENOL; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; QUERCETIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AZOXYMETHANE;

ABERRANT CRYPT FOCUS; ACANTHUS ILICIFOLIUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BAX GENE; BCL 2 GENE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MANGROVE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; RAT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT DURATION; UPREGULATION; ABERRANT CRYPT FOCI; ACANTHACEAE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOXICITY;

ABERRANT CRYPT FOCI; ACANTHACEAE; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; AZOXYMETHANE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84901272569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096004     Document Type: Article

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