Sterols antitumor activity

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ANTITUMOR-PROMOTING AND ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITIES OF TRITERPENOIDS AND STEROLS FROM PLANTS AND FUNGI... 

The concept that inflammation and carcinogenesis are related phenomena has been the subject of many studies that have attempted to link these two processes in a mechanistic fashion [94-99]. In connection with this, as is evident in some triterpenoids such as oleanolic acid (142), glycyrrhetic acid (147), and ursolic acid (210) in Table 2, those possessing anti-inflammatory activity in various experimental models exhibited antitumor-promoting activity as well. This suggests that most of the other anti-inflammatory triterpenoids and sterols listed in Table 2 might have antitumor-promoting properties which have not been evaluated, yet. 

Some foods originated from Liliaceae plants, such as Allium sat/vum(garlic) and A. wakegi are effective in the prevention of a malignant tumor and a sterol, laxogenin was identified as the active compound , in vitro Antitumor promotor test of the steroidal glycosides isolated by our studies have been carried out and the activity was estimated from the rate of incorporation of phospholipid into HeLa ceils stimulated with TPA(12-0-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate). 

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