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Green tea polyphenols reverse cooperation between c-Rel and CK2 that induces the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, slug, and an invasive phenotype.
Cancer research - 15 Dec 2007
Belguise Karine, Guo Shangqin, Yang Shi, Rogers Adrianne E, Seldin David C, Sherr David H, Sonenshein Gail E
Abstract excerpt
Exposure to and bioaccumulation of lipophilic environmental pollutants, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), has been implicated in breast cancer. Treatment of female rats with the prototypic xenobiotic PAH 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) induces mammary tumors with an invasive phenotype. Here, we show that green tea prevents or reverses loss of the epithelial marker E-cadherin on the surface of...
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