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Pharmacological basis and new insights of quercetin action in respect to its anti-cancer effects

Si-Min Tang, Xue-Ting Deng, Jian Zhou, Quanpeng Li, Xian-Xiu Ge, L. Miao

Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie, 2019

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Abstract

Quercetin is a kind of flavonoid compounds that comes from nature and is widely existed in the daily diet. Previous studies have found that quercetin has many effects such as anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidation and anti-cancer. Both in vivo and in vitro experiments have demonstrated that quercetin can exert anti-tumor effects by altering cell cycle progression, inhibiting cell proliferation, promoting apoptosis, inhibiting angiogenesis and metastasis progression, and affecting autophagy. This review summarizes the evidence for the pharmacological potential and inhibition of quercetin on cancers, supporting the viewpoint that quercetin should be adequately considered as a therapeutic agent against various cancers.

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