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Selective toxicity of compounds naturally present in food toward the transformed phenotype of human colorectal cell line HT29.
Nutrition and cancer - 1 Jan 1995
Musk S R, Stephenson P, Smith T K, Stening P, Fyfe D, Johnson I T
Abstract excerpt
It has previously been observed that allyl isothiocyanate, a compound naturally present in the diet, is more cytotoxic toward the human colorectal adenocarcinoma cell line HT29 in its control transformed state than after exposure to sodium butyrate or to dimethylformamide, which slow growth and induce differentiation (detransformation). In the present study, a range of other dietary compounds were assayed for...
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