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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Main Authors: Avinaba Mukherjee, Anisur Rahman Khuda-Bukhsh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Pharmacopuncture Institute 2015-03-01
Series:Journal of Pharmacopuncture
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3831/KPI.2015.18.002