Flaxseed and its lignans inhibit estradiol-induced growth, angiogenesis, and secretion of vascular endothelial growth factor in human breast cancer xenografts in vivo

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1061-1067

  Jungeström, Malin Bergman ^a   Thompson, Lilian U ^b   Dabrosin, Charlotta ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTERODIOL; ENTEROLACTONE; ESTRADIOL; LIGNAN DERIVATIVE; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DRUG INHIBITION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; LINSEED; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UMBILICAL VEIN; UPREGULATION; XENOGRAFT;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FLAX; HUMANS; LIGNANS; MICE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PHYTOESTROGENS; UMBILICAL VEINS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 33847392879     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-06-1651     Document Type: Article

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