Cancer Letters
Volume 238, Issue 2 , Pages 202-209 , 18 July 2006

Anticancer activity of grape and grape skin extracts alone and combined with green tea infusions

  • Dorothy M. Morré

      Affiliations

    • Department of Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University, 700 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2059, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 765 494 8233; fax: +1 765 494 0906.
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  • D. James Morré

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Received 23 November 2004 ,Revised 16 May 2005 ,Accepted 5 July 2005.

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PII: S0304-3835(05)00670-1

doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2005.07.011

Cancer Letters
Volume 238, Issue 2 , Pages 202-209 , 18 July 2006

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