The chemopreventive role of dietary phytochemicals through gap junctional intercellular communication

Phytochemistry Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 285-307

  Leone, Antonella ^a   Longo, Cristiano ^a   Trosko, James E ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Cancer; Dietary phytochemicals; Epigenetic mechanisms; Gap junction intercellular communication (GJIC)

Indexed keywords

3 INDOLEMETHANOL; ACYCLORETINOIC ACID; ALPHA CAROTENE; APIGENIN; BETA CAROTENE; CAFFEIC ACID PHENETHYL ESTER; CANTHAXANTHIN; CONNEXIN 43; EPICATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; FUCOXANTHIN; GALLIC ACID; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GENISTEIN; GRAPE SEED EXTRACT; KIWIFRUIT EXTRACT; LYCOPENE; MEVINOLIN; MICRORNA; NARINGENIN; PANNEXIN; PLANT EXTRACT; QUERCETIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RESVERATROL; RETINOIC ACID; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TANGERETIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; XANTHOPHYLL;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER PREVENTION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONNEXIN GENE; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; INHIBITION KINETICS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TUMOR PROMOTION;

EID: 84876412958     PISSN: 15687767     EISSN: 1572980X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11101-012-9235-7     Document Type: Review

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