Chemopreventive effect of myrtenal on bacterial enzyme activity and the development of 1,2-dimethyl hydrazine-induced aberrant crypt foci in Wistar Rats

• Main Authors: Booupathy, Lokesh Kumar, Venkatachalam, Sathishkumar, Natarajan, Nandakumar, Thamaraiselvan, Rengarajan, Arumugam, Madankumar, Periyasamy, Balasubramanian Maruthaiveeran
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2016
• Subjects: RB Pathology
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/38440/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfda.2015.07.003
• Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia

Colon cancer remains as a serious health problem around the world despite advances in diagnosis and treatment. Dietary fibers are considered to reduce the risk of colon cancer as they are converted to short chain fatty acids by the presence of anaerobic bacteria in the intestine, but imbalanced d...