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Abstract Title:

Anthocyanins: targeting of signaling networks in cancer cells.

Abstract Source:

Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2014 ;15(5):2379-81. PMID: 24716988

Abstract Author(s):

Muserref Hilal Sehitoglu, Ammad Ahmad Farooqi, Muhammad Zahid Qureshi, Ghazala Butt, Aliye Aras

Article Affiliation:

Muserref Hilal Sehitoglu

Abstract:

It is becoming progressively more understandable that phytochemicals derived from edible plants have shown potential in modelling their interactions with their target proteins. Rapidly accumulating in-vitro and in- vivo evidence indicates that anthocyanins have anticancer activity in rodent models of cancer. More intriguingly, evaluation of bilberry anthocyanins as chemopreventive agents in twenty-five colorectal cancer patients has opened new window of opportunity in translating the findings from laboratory to clinic. Confluence of information suggests that anthocyanins treated cancer cells reveal up-regulation of tumor suppressor genes. There is a successive increase in the research-work in nutrigenomics and evidence has started to shed light on intracellular-signaling cascades as common molecular targets for anthocyanins. In this review we bring to limelight how anthocyanins induced apoptosis in cancer cells via activation of extrinsic and intrinsic pathways.

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