“Curcumin, the King of Spices”: Epigenetic Regulatory Mechanisms in the Prevention of Cancer, Neurological, and Inflammatory Diseases

Current Pharmacology Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 129-139

  Boyanapalli, Sarandeep S S ^a   Kong, Ah Ng Tony ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Curcumin; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Histone modification; Nrf2

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; CURCUMIN; DECITABINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE DEMETHYLASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2; TRIGGERING RECEPTOR EXPRESSED ON MYELOID CELLS 1;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; CANCER CELL LINE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 85017177347     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2198641X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40495-015-0018-x     Document Type: Review

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