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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Ther. 2012 Oct;3(5A):10.4236/jct.2012.325094. doi: 10.4236/jct.2012.325094

Table 1.

Limonene levels in mouse mammary tissue and plasma after four weeks of daily oral or topical limonene administration.

Mammary
tissue (µ M)
Plasma (µ M) Mammary
tisue/Plasma ratio
10% Topical
(N = 4)
47.95 ± 33.96a,b 0.02 ± 0.01 4105 ± 4183
20% Topical
(N = 4)
46.00 ± 14.37b 0.02 ± 0.01 3063 ± 2286
10% Oral
(N = 4)
44.55 ± 13.21b 0.08 ± 0.11 1434 ± 1195
20% Oral
(N = 4)
115.39 ± 85.43b 0.02 ± 0.01 4828 ± 2516
a

Mean ± SD;

b

Significantly higher than plasma (P < 0.05).