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Implications of the Inhibition of Animal Tumors by Dietary Zinc Deficiency

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Inorganic and Nutritional Aspects of Cancer

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 91))

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Experiments with mice and rats have been carried out to determine whether the growth of malignant tumors can be controlled by dietary manipulation of zinc, an essential element for growth and repair. Although it is well established that growth rates of bacterial and tissue cultures, and indeed, of whole organisms and populations, can be reduced by the limitation of a critical nutrient, application of this technique does not seem to have been made to the study of experimental tumors. The experiments were designed to develop a system without the hazard of a known carcinogenic agent.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Walter J. Pories, Arthur Flynn, Edward G. Mansour & William H. Strain

  2. Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    William D. DeWys

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Pories, W.J., DeWys, W.D., Flynn, A., Mansour, E.G., Strain, W.H. (1978). Implications of the Inhibition of Animal Tumors by Dietary Zinc Deficiency. In: Schrauzer, G.N. (eds) Inorganic and Nutritional Aspects of Cancer. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 91. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0796-9_17

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