Diet and Cancer
Cancer
Prevention: The Roles of Diet and Chemoprevention
Nutritional
Biochemistry of Copper - (think metallothio Xs) absorption in sm intestine,
dependent
on competing metal concs. Systemic thiomolybdate elevates plasma total
Cu concs
as plasma transport mechanisms malfunction and Cu is leached from liver
into the
plasma. Ultimately, systemic thiomolybdate deplets Cu from tissue stores and
reduces
plasma Cu