Dietary lariciresinol attenuates mammary tumor growth and reduces blood vessel density in human MCF-7 breast cancer xenografts and carcinogen-induced mammary tumors in rats

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1196-1204

  Saarinen, Niina M ^a   Wärri, Anni ^a   Dings, Ruud P M ^b   Airio, Maarit ^a   Smeds, Annika I ^c   Mäkelä, Sari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Breast cancer; Diet; Dimethylbenz a anthracene; Enterolignans; Lariciresinol; Lignan; MCF 7, xenograft

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARCINOGEN; DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; ENTERODIOL; ENTEROLACTONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GLYCOPROTEIN E2; LARICIRESINOL; LIGNAN DERIVATIVE; SECOISOLARICIRESINOL; VASCULOTROPIN; 2,3 BIS(3' HYDROXYBENZYL)BUTANE 1,4 DIOL; 2,3 BIS(3' HYDROXYBENZYL)BUTYROLACTONE; 2,3-BIS(3'-HYDROXYBENZYL)BUTANE-1,4-DIOL; 2,3-BIS(3'-HYDROXYBENZYL)BUTYROLACTONE; 7,12 DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; BUTANEDIOL; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FURAN DERIVATIVE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; LIGNAN; PHYTOESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER RISK; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; RISK REDUCTION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE; OVARIECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; XENOGRAFT;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; 9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BUTYLENE GLYCOLS; CARCINOGENS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; FURANS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LIGNANS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, NUDE; OVARIECTOMY; PHYTOESTROGENS; RATS; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 47249089129     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.23614     Document Type: Article

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