## Abstract Among the natural products shown to possess chemopreventive and anticancer properties, curcumin is one of the most potent. In the current study, we investigated the effects of this natural product on the growth of human glioma U‐87 cells xenografted into athymic mice. We show here that
518 POSTER Curcumin inhibits tumor growth and angiogenesis in glioblastoma xenografts
✍ Scribed by M. Perry; M. Demeule; R. Béliveau
- Book ID
- 118624146
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 57 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1359-6349
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