Fish oil mitigates myosteatosis and improves chemotherapy efficacy in a preclinical model of colon cancer.

This study aimed to assess whether feeding a diet containing fish oil was efficacious in reducing tumor- and subsequent chemotherapy-associated myosteatosis, and improving tumor response to treatment.Female Fischer 344 rats were fed either a control diet for the entire study (control), or switched t...

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Main Authors: Alaa A Almasud, Kaitlin H Giles, John J Miklavcic, Karen J B Martins, Vickie E Baracos, Charles T Putman, Leluo L Guan, Vera C Mazurak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5568380?pdf=render