Cancer prevention by carotenoids and curcumin

Phytochemicals as Bioactive Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 161-166

  Nishino, Hoyoku ^a   Tokuda, Harukuni ^a   Murakoshi, Michiaki ^a   Satomi, Yoshiko ^a   Matsumoto, Hirohiko ^a   Masuda, Mitsuharu ^a   Bu, Ping ^a   Onozuka, Mari ^a   Yamaguchi, Shino ^a   Okuda, Yoko ^a   Takayasu, Junko ^a   Nishino, Atsuko ^a   Tsuruta, Jun ^a   Okuda, Masato ^a   Ichiishi, Eiichiro ^a   Nosaka, Kazuto ^a   Konoshima, Takao ^a   Kato, Toshimitsu ^b   Nir, Zohar ^c   Khachik, Frederick ^d   Misawa, Norihiko ^e   Narisawa, Tomio ^f   Takasuka, Nobuo ^g   more..

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Nutrilite   (United States)

^c LycoRed Natural Products Industries Ltd   (Israel)

^d University of Maryland   (United States)

^e KIRIN BREWERY CO LTD   (Japan)

^f AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; CANCER PREVENTION; CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY; CURCUMIN; PHYTOCHEMICAL; TUMORIGENESIS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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