Pumpkin seed extract: Cell growth inhibition of hyperplastic and cancer cells, independent of steroid hormone receptors

Fitoterapia

Volumn 110, Issue , 2016, Pages 150-156

  Medjakovic, Svjetlana ^a,b   Hobiger, Stefanie ^a,b   Ardjomand Woelkart, Karin ^c   Bucar, Franz ^c   Jungbauer, Alois ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Benign prostate hyperplasia; Cancer cells; Cell viability; Pumpkin; Steroid hormone receptors

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PLANT EXTRACT; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PUMPKIN SEED EXTRACT; STEROID RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AR PROTEIN, HUMAN; CUCURBITIN PROTEIN, PUMPKIN; GROWTH INHIBITOR; PLANT PROTEIN;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CACO 2 CELL LINE; CANCER CELL; CELL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCURBITA PEPO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LNCAP CELL LINE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; FIBROBLAST; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PROSTATE TUMOR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SQUASH; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CUCURBITA; FIBROBLASTS; GROWTH INHIBITORS; HUMANS; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEEDS;

EID: 84962245996     PISSN: 0367326X     EISSN: 18736971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2016.03.010     Document Type: Article

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