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Article: Zerumbone suppresses skin tumor initiation and promotion stages in ICR mice.
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- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- July 27, 2004
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2004 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Zerumbone, a sesquiterpene in subtropical ginger, suppresses skin tumor initiation and promotion stages in ICR mice, and looks promising as a treatment.
According to a study from Japan, "We recently showed that zerumbone, a sesquiterpene found in subtropical ginger, suppresses colonic tumor marker formation in rats and induces apoptosis in colon cancer cell lines.
"In our present study," reported A. Murakami and associates, "the anti-tumor initiating and promoting activities of zerumbone in mouse skin were evaluated using a conventional 2-stage carcinogenesis model."
"A single topical pretreatment to ...