Potent preventive action of alpha-carotene against carcinogenesis: spontaneous liver carcinogenesis and promoting stage of lung and skin carcinogenesis in mice are suppressed more effectively by alpha-carotene than by beta-carotene.
Michiaki Murakoshi(Yokohama City University), Hirokazu Kitano, Teiko Hasegawa, Hoyoku Nishino(Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine), Harukuni Tokuda(Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine), Junko Takayasu, Yoshiko Satomi(Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine), Junichi Okuzumi, Hidetoshi Okabe(Shiga University of Medical Science), Akio Iwashima
PubMed
December 1, 1992
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