Potential for preventive effects of cocoa and cocoa polyphenols in cancer

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2013, Pages 336-351

  Martin, Maria Angeles ^a   Goya, Luis ^a   Ramos, Sonia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antioxidant defenses; Cancer; Cell death; Cocoa; Inflammation; Survival proliferation pathways

Indexed keywords

3' O METHYLEPICATECHIN; 4' O METHYLEPICATECHIN; CACAO EXTRACT; CATECHIN; EPICATECHIN; EPICATECHIN C16; EPICATECHIN GLUCURONIDE; FLAVANOL DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYPHENOL; PROANTHOCYANIDIN; PROCYANIDIN; PROCYANIDIN B2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; CACAO; CANCER PREVENTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COLON CANCER; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DETOXIFICATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOMA; METASTASIS; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PANCREAS CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; THYROID CANCER; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; CACAO; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLYPHENOLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84875613674     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2013.02.020     Document Type: Review

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