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Nutrition and cancer prevention：new insights into the role of phytochemicals

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Corporate Authors: American Institute for Cancer Research. Conference 1999 Washington, D.C.) (Washington, D.C.)); American Institute for Cancer Research.
Published: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2001.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; 492
Subjects:
Cancer > Diet therapy.
Phytochemicals > Therapeutic use
Functional foods.
Neoplasms > prevention & control.
Dietary supplements.
Nutrition.
Plant Extracts.
Vegetarianism.
Cancer > Chimioprévention > Congrès.
Cancer > Diétothérapie > Congrès.
Composés phytochimiques > Emploi en thérapeutique > Congrès.
Nutraceutiques > Congrès.
Cancer > Chemoprevention.
Carrier Form: xii, 347 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 0306465450
Index Number: R730
CLC: R730.1-532
R730.52-532
Call Number: R730.1-532/N976/1999
Contents: "Proceeding of the Ninth Annual Research Conference of the American Institute for Cancer Research,.... held September 2-3, 1999, in Washington, D.C."--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Soybeans and cancer prevention: a complex food and a complex disease -- Dietary soy reduces colon carcinogenesis in humans and rats -- Soy and risk of hormone-related and other cancers -- Role of tomatoes, tomato products and lycopene in cancer prevention -- Tea and tea polyphenols n cancer prevention -- Effects of tea polyphenols on the signal transduction pathways -- Mechanisms by which garlic and allyl sulfur compounds suppress carcinogen bioactivation -- Antiproliferative effects of garlic-derived and other allium related compounds -- Considering the mechanisms of cancer prevention by selenium -- Selenium metabolism and mechanisms of cancer prevention -- Apoptosis and angiogenesis in cancer prevention by selenium -- Resveratrol inhibits the expression of cyclooxygenase-2 in mammary epithelial cells -- The world of resveratrol -- The effects of resveratrol on CYP1A1 expression and aryl hydrocarbon receptor function in vitro -- Herbals and cancer -- The role of dietary supplements in health -- The beta-carotene story -- Dietary intervention strategies: validity, execution and interpretation of outcomes -- Nutrition and cancer prevention: new insights into the role of phytochemicals. Future directions -- Chemoprevention: progress and opportunity.

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