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[Ursolic acid as antitumor agent and inductor of PTEN and brown fat].
Voprosy onkologii - 1 Jan 2012
Bershteĭn L M
Abstract excerpt
In this mini-review the basic evidence about anticancer properties of ursolic acid (UA), the compound belonging to the class of triterpenoids, is given. Beside inhibiting tumor cell growth in vitro and in vivo and activating of apoptosis, UA (as well as some other related and not related compounds) is capable to induce PTEN (a tumor suppressor mutation of which is rather often discovered in human tumors including...
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