Phytosterols as a natural anticancer agent: Current status and future perspective

Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 88, Issue , 2017, Pages 786-794

  Shahzad, Naiyer ^a   Khan, Wajahatullah ^b   MD, Shadab ^c   Ali, Asgar ^d   Saluja, Sundeep Singh ^e   Sharma, Sadhana ^d   Al Allaf, Faisal A ^a   Abduljaleel, Zainularifeen ^a   Ibrahim, Ibrahim Abdel Aziz ^a   Abdel Wahab, Ali Fathi ^a   Afify, Mohamed Abdelaziz ^a   Al Ghamdi, Saeed Saeed ^a  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^c INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^d ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^e G B PANT HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Anticancer effect of sterols; Campesterol; Dietary phytosterols; Dietary phytosterols and cancer; Phytosterols; Phytosterols and cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MEMBRANE ENZYME; PHYTOSTEROL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; DIETARY INTAKE; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIET; NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; DIET; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHYTOSTEROLS;

EID: 85011105536     PISSN: 07533322     EISSN: 19506007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2017.01.068     Document Type: Review

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