The potential antitumor effects of capsaicin

Progress in Drug Research

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 181-208

  Díaz Laviada, Inés ^a   Rodríguez Henche, Nieves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE DEPENDENT KINASE; CAPSAICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN P53; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; STAT PROTEIN; TRPV1 RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLOID RECEPTOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; BRONCHUS CANCER; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL DEATH; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CAPSAICIN; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; TRPV CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 84901233786     PISSN: 0071786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0828-6_8     Document Type: Review

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