Functional polysaccharide Lentinan suppresses human breast cancer growth via inducing autophagy and caspase-7-mediated apoptosis

The aim of this study was to evaluate the direct antitumor activity of edible fungal polysaccharide Lentinan, rather than as a host defence potentiator, on human breast cancer and investigate its underlying mechanisms. The present results revealed that there were 45.46% and 59.16% of inhibitory rate...

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Main Authors: Weiyong Li, Jinglin Wang, Huiping Hu, Qiang Li, Ying Liu, Kaiping Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-06-01
Series:Journal of Functional Foods
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464618301105