Article
Vanillin differentially affects azoxymethane-injected rat colon carcinogenesis and gene expression.
Journal of medicinal food - 1 Dec 2012
Ho Ket Li, Chong Pei Pei, Yazan Latifah Saiful, Ismail Maznah
Abstract excerpt
Vanillin is the substance responsible for the flavor and smell of vanilla, a widely used flavoring agent. Previous studies reported that vanillin is a good antimutagen and anticarcinogen. However, there are also some contradicting findings showing that vanillin was a comutagen and cocarcinogen. This study investigated whether vanillin is an anticarcinogen or a cocarcinogen in rats induced with azoxymethane (AOM)....
Topics
- Aberrant Crypt Foci
- Animals
- Anticarcinogenic Agents
- Apoptosis
- Azoxymethane
- Benzaldehydes
- Cell Cycle
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Colon
- Colorectal Neoplasms
- DNA Mismatch Repair
- Gene Expression
- Male
- Mutation
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
