Tocotrienols fight cancer by targeting multiple cell signaling pathways

Genes and Nutrition

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-52

  Kannappan, Ramaswamy ^a   Gupta, Subash C ^a   Kim, Ji Hye ^a   Aggarwal, Bharat B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Inflammation; NF B; Nutrition; STAT3; Tocotrienol; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DERIVATIVE; ALPHA TOCOTRIENOL; BETA TOCOTRIENOL; DEATH RECEPTOR; DELTA TOCOTRIENOL; ERLOTINIB; GAMMA TOCOTRIENOL; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; JANUS KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER INVASION; COLON CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG POTENTIATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; METASTASIS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN CANCER; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 84860771460     PISSN: 15558932     EISSN: 18653499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12263-011-0220-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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