Lignan-rich sesame seed negates the tumor-inhibitory effect of tamoxifen but maintains bone health in a postmenopausal athymic mouse model with estrogen-responsive breast tumors

Menopause

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 171-179

  Sacco, Sandra M ^a   Chen, Jianmin ^a   Power, Krista A ^a   Ward, Wendy E ^a   Thompson, Lilian U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bone health; Breast tumors; Cell proliferation; Lignans; Sesame seed

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; LIGNAN; SESAME SEED OIL; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; BONE STRENGTH; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LINSEED; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; OVARIECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; APOPTOSIS; BONE DENSITY; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FOOD-DRUG INTERACTIONS; LIGNANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; OVARIECTOMY; PREMENOPAUSE; SEEDS; SESAMUM; TAMOXIFEN; TUMOR BURDEN; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 38049043434     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3180479901     Document Type: Article

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