Quercetin Down-regulates IL-6/STAT-3 Signals to Induce Mitochondrial-mediated Apoptosis in a Non-small-cell Lung-cancer Cell Line, A549
Objectives: Quercetin, a flavonoid compound, has been reported to induce apoptosis in cancer cells, but its anti-inflammatory effects, which are also closely linked with apoptosis, if any, on non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have not so far been critically examined. In this study, we tried to dete...
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Language: | English |
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Korean Pharmacopuncture Institute
2015-03-01
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Series: | Journal of Pharmacopuncture |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3831/KPI.2015.18.002 |