Cancer Letters
Volume 220, Issue 1 , Pages 29-35 , 18 March 2005

Antimutagenicity of selenium-enriched rice on mice exposure to cyclophosphamide and mitomycin C

  • Qiuhui Hu

      Affiliations

    • Key Laboratory of Food Processing and Quality Control of Agriculture Ministry of China, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, People's Republic of China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +86-25-8439-5618; fax: +86-25-8439-6431.
    • ,
  • Juan Xu

      Affiliations

    • Key Laboratory of Food Processing and Quality Control of Agriculture Ministry of China, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, People's Republic of China
    • Department of Biology, Changshu Institute of Science and Technology, Changshu 215500, People's Republic of China
    • ,
  • Licheng Chen

      Affiliations

    • Jiangsu Branch, China National Import and Export Commodities Inspection Corporation, Nanjing 210009, People's Republic of China

Received 19 April 2004 ,Revised 25 June 2004 ,Accepted 28 June 2004.

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PII: S0304-3835(04)00507-5

doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2004.06.041

Cancer Letters
Volume 220, Issue 1 , Pages 29-35 , 18 March 2005

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