The healthy effects of strawberry bioactive compounds on molecular pathways related to chronic diseases

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1398, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 62-71

  Giampieri, Francesca ^a   Forbes Hernandez, Tamara Y ^a,b   Gasparrini, Massimiliano ^a   Afrin, Sadia ^a   Cianciosi, Danila ^a   Reboredo Rodriguez, Patricia ^a,c   Varela Lopez, Alfonso ^a   Quiles, Jose L ^d   Mezzetti, Bruno ^a   Battino, Maurizio ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b Area de Nutrición y Salud Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana UNINI   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^e Universidad Europea del Atlántico   (Spain)

Author keywords

cancer; cardiovascular diseases; inflammation; metabolism; strawberry phenolic compounds

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; CYTOKINE; ELLAGIC ACID; FISETIN; FLAVONOID; GALLIC ACID; KAEMPFEROL; PELARGONIDIN; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; POLYPHENOL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL METABOLISM; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; METASTASIS INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REVIEW; STRAWBERRY; CHEMISTRY; DIET THERAPY; FRAGARIA; FRUIT; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NEOPLASM;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FRAGARIA; FRUIT; HUMANS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NEOPLASMS; PHENOLS;

EID: 85020776771     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13373     Document Type: Review

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