Tocotrienols activity in MCF-7 breast cancer cells: Involvement of ERβ signal transduction

Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 669-678

  Comitato, Raffaella ^a   Leoni, Guido ^a   Canali, Raffaella ^a   Ambra, Roberto ^a   Nesaretnam, Kalanithi ^b   Virgili, Fabio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b MALAYSIAN PALM OIL BOARD   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Estrogen nuclear receptor; Frizzled 1; Macrophage inhibitory cytokine 1; Tocopherols

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA TOCOTRIENOL; BMP4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CATHEPSIN D; DNA; DNA ENZYME ED5; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GDF15 PROTEIN, HUMAN; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 15; PRIMER DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TOCOPHEROL;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ACTINS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATHEPSIN D; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 15; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOCOPHEROLS; TOCOTRIENOLS;

EID: 77952405283     PISSN: 16134125     EISSN: 16134133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.200900383     Document Type: Article

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