Is selenium a potential treatment for cancer metastasis?

Nutrients

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1149-1168

  Chen, Yu Chi ^a   Sandeep Prabhu, K ^a   Mastro, Andrea M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Invasion; Metastasis; Migration; Selenium; Selenoproteins

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DOXORUBICIN; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE 2; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE 3; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 18; METHYLSELENINIC ACID; METHYLSELENOCYANATE; METHYLSELENOL; SELENATE; SELENITE; SELENIUM BINDING PROTEIN 1; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; SELENIUM ENRICHED GARLIC; SELENIUM ENRICHED MALT; SELENOMETHIONINE; SELENOPROTEIN; SELENOPROTEIN 15; SOYBEAN PROTEIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE 1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 2; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 3; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER THERAPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROSARCOMA; GLIOMA; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOMA; MELANOMA METASTASIS; METASTASIS; METASTASIS INHIBITION; MIGRATION INHIBITION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MOUTH SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84876054530     PISSN: 20726643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu5041149     Document Type: Review

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