Effects of ethanol extracts from Adzuki bean (Phaseolus angularis Wight.) and Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.) on estrogen and progesterone receptor phenotypes of MCF-7/BOS cells

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 648-652

  Zhao, Qing Wei ^a,b   Huang, Xin ^a   Lou, Yi Jia ^a   Weber, Nadine ^c   Proksch, Peter ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c Institut Pharmazeutische Technologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor; Ethanol extracts of Adzuki bean; Ethanol extracts of Lima bean; MCF 7 BOS cell line; Progesterone receptor

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BEAN; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; PHASEOLUS; PHYTOESTROGENS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

PHASEOLUS LUNATUS; VIGNA ANGULARIS;

EID: 34447539731     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.2135     Document Type: Article

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