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Prevention of colorectal cancer using COX-2 inhibitors: basic science and clinical applications.
Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library - 1 Sept 2004
Chu Arthur J, Chou Ta-Hsu, Chen Ben D
Abstract excerpt
Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), an inducible prostaglandin G/H synthase, is overexpressed in pre-neoplastic tissues and several human cancers including colorectal cancer. Evidence linking COX-2 activity to carcinogenesis was derived from epidemiologic studies and animal models with defect adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene. PGE2 induced by COX-2 exerts several biological properties that may be advantageous for...
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