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Dietary vitamin E affects neutrophil distribution and genetic instability in murine Mutatect tumors.
Nutrition and cancer - 1 Jan 2002
Haqqani Arsalan S, Sandhu Jagdeep K, Birnboim H Chaim
Abstract excerpt
Vitamin E is best known for its ability to scavenge reactive oxygen and nitrogen species. Solid tumors are frequently infiltrated with leukocytes, a potential source of these reactive species. The Mutatect tumor model is a fibrosarcoma that can be grown subcutaneously in syngeneic C57BL/6 mice. We previously showed that these tumors are infiltrated with neutrophils and that the number of neutrophils correlates...
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