Anticancer effects of bioactive berry compounds

Phytochemistry Reviews

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 295-322

  Folmer, Florence ^a,b   Basavaraju, Umesh ^b   Jaspars, Marcel ^b   Hold, Georgina ^b   El Omar, Emad ^b   Dicato, Mario ^a   Diederich, Marc ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE DU CANCER   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anthocyanin; Anti cancer; Anti inflammatory; Anti oxidant; Berry; Flavonoid

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIDIN DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; BERRY EXTRACT; ELLAGIC ACID; ELLAGITANNIN; ELLAGITANNIN DERIVATIVE; FATTY ACID DERIVATIVE; FLAVANOL DERIVATIVE; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOL DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; JANUS KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHENOLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLANT EXTRACT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; PROANTHOCYANIDIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN KINASE B; RAS PROTEIN; RASPBERRY EXTRACT; STAT PROTEIN; STILBENOID DERIVATIVE; STRAWBERRY EXTRACT; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; UROLITHIN DERIVATIVE;

ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BERRY; CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG STRUCTURE; FREEZE DRYING; FRUIT JUICE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; METASTASIS INHIBITION; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POWDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASPBERRY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAWBERRY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84894621632     PISSN: 15687767     EISSN: 1572980X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11101-013-9319-z     Document Type: Review

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