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Quercetin blocks the aggressive phenotype of triple-negative breast cancer by inhibiting IGF1/IGF1R-mediated EMT program.
Journal of food and drug analysis - 15 Mar 2021
Chen Wei-Jen, Tsai Jie-Heng, Hsu Li-Sung, Lin Chih-Li, Hong Hui-Mei, Pan Min-Hsiung
Abstract excerpt
The cancer-preventive activities of quercetin have been extensively studied in invasive breast cancer; however, the role of quercetin on triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) with overexpression of insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF1R) has not been resolved. In this article, we demonstrated that quercetin inhibited the activation of IGF1R and its downstream kinases Akt and Erk1/2 in a dose-dependent manner...
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