2014/11/09

Plant flavonoids kill different cancer types

herbs with apigenin kills cancer cells
A recent review published in the Pharmacognosy Reviews journal summarize the cancer killing effects of several  flavonoids, including  apigenin, chrysin, luteolin and many others. Here is the abstract of the article published, you can check this by clicking the link below.

Dr. Katrin Sak, recently reviewed cytotoxic effects of several plant flavonoids, including  apigenin, chrysin, luteolin and many others.






Cytotoxicity of dietary flavonoids on different human cancer types


Flavonoids are ubiquitous in nature. They are also in food, providing an essential link between diet and prevention of chronic diseases including cancer. Anticancer effects of these polyphenols depend on several factors: Their chemical structure and concentration, and also on the type of cancer.

Malignant cells from different tissues reveal somewhat different sensitivity toward flavonoids and, therefore, the preferences of the most common dietary flavonoids to various human cancer types are analyzed in this review. While luteolin and kaempferol can be considered as promising candidate agents for treatment of gastric and ovarian cancers, respectively, apigenin, chrysin, and luteolin have good perspectives as potent antitumor agents for cervical cancer; cells from main sites of flavonoid metabolism (colon and liver) reveal rather large fluctuations in anticancer activity probably due to exposure to various metabolites with different activities.

Anticancer effect of flavonoids toward blood cancer cells depend on their myeloid, lymphoid, or erythroid origin; cytotoxic effects of flavonoids on breast and prostate cancer cells are highly related to the expression of hormone receptors. Different flavonoids are often preferentially present in certain food items, and knowledge about the malignant tissue-specific anticancer effects of flavonoids could be purposely applied both in chemoprevention as well as in cancer treatment.



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Reference

Sak K. Cytotoxicity of dietary flavonoids on different human cancer types.
Pharmacogn Rev. 2014 Jul;8(16):122-46. doi: 10.4103/0973-7847.134247.

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