Growth-stimulatory effect of resveratrol in human cancer cells

✍ Scribed by Masayuki Fukui; Noriko Yamabe; Ki Sung Kang; Bao Ting Zhu

• Book ID: 102944150
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 502 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0899-1987
• DOI: 10.1002/mc.20650

✦ Synopsis

Earlier studies have shown that resveratrol could induce death in several human cancer cell lines in culture. Here we report our observation that resveratrol can also promote the growth of certain human cancer cells when they are grown either in culture or in athymic nude mice as xenografts. At relatively low concentrations (