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Title: | The Influence of Beta-Carotene and Lycopene on Human Prostate Tumor Cells in Vitro and Human Prostate Tumors in Mice |
Author(s): | Williams, Alexa W. |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | John W. Erdman, Jr. |
Department / Program: | Food Science and Human Nutrition |
Discipline: | Food Science and Human Nutrition |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Health Sciences, Oncology |
Abstract: | An overall goal of this research was to investigate the influence of tomatoes, BC and lycopene on prostate carcinogenesis under biologically relevant conditions. To this end, a novel approach for the delivery of carotenoids to cells in culture and a murine model were developed. There was no evidence from the athymic model that whole tomato or tomato extracts reduced the progression of advanced prostate cancer. |
Issue Date: | 1998 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 145 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/83728 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI9834758 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 1998 |
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