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Tocotrienol isoforms:The molecular mechanisms underlying their effects in cancer therapy and their implementation in clinical trials

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Tocotrienols are found in a variety of natural sources,like rice bran,annatto seeds and palm oil,and have been shown to have several health-promoting properties,particularly against chronic diseases such as cancer.The incidence of cancer is rapidly increasing around the world,not only a result of continued aging and population growth,but also due to the adoption of aspects of the Western lifestyle,such as high-fat diets and low-physical activity.The literature provides strong evidence that tocotrienols are able to inhibit the growth of various cancers,including breast,lung,ovarian,prostate,liver,brain,colon,mye-loma and pancreatic cancers.These findings,along with the reported safety profile of tocotrienols in healthy human volunteers,encourage further research into these compounds'potential use in cancer pre-vention and treatment.The current review provided detailed information about the molecular mecha-nisms of action of different tocotrienol isoforms in various cancer models and evaluated the potential therapeutic effects of different vitamin E analogues on important cancer hallmarks,such as cellular pro-liferation,apoptosis,angiogenesis and metastasis.MEDLINE/PubMed and Scopus databases were used to identify recently published articles that investigated the anticancer effects of vitamin E derivatives in var-ious types of cancer in vitro and in vivo along with clinical evidence of adjuvant chemopreventive ben-efits.Following an overview of pre-clinical studies,we describe several completed and ongoing clinical trials that are paving the way for the successful implementation of tocotrienols in cancer chemotherapy.

Vitamin ETocotrienolsCancerMolecular mechanismClinical trials

Maria Younes、Ghady Loubnane、Christopher Sleiman、Sandra Rizk

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Department of Natural Sciences,Lebanese American University,Byblos,Lebanon

2024

结合医学学报(英文版)
上海市中西医结合学会,上海长海医院

结合医学学报(英文版)

CSTPCD
影响因子:0.711
ISSN:2095-4964
年,卷(期):2024.22(1)
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