Selective inhibition of cyclooxygenase (
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Kentaro Yazawa; Nelson H. Tsuno; Joji Kitayama; Kazushige Kawai; Yurai Okaji; Ma
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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French
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High-level expression of cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 is reported in 80 -90% of colorectal adenocarcinomas. Selective inhibition of COX-2 was shown to reduce colorectal tumorigenesis in different models of carcinogenesis and to prevent metastasis in xenograft tumor models, as well as to suppress in vitro