Lithospermum ruderale and the Incidence of Mammary Tumors in Mice.
- 1 December 1950
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Vol. 75 (3) , 779-781
- https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-75-18340
Abstract
Ground lithosperm (a plant which induces diestrus) administered by drug-diet to virgin female mice, starting at 6 to 8 weeks of age, decreased the incidence of spontaneous mammary tumors from 58.1% to 2.8% in C3H mice and from 96.6% to 21.9% in ZDF1 mice.Keywords
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