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Fruits

• 2002 The American Society for Nutritional Sciences J. Nutr. 132:3161-3167, October 2002

  Nutritional Epidemiology

  Frequent Intake of Tropical Fruits That Are Rich in ß-Cryptoxanthin Is Associated with Higher Plasma ß-Cryptoxanthin Concentrations in Costa Rican Adolescents1

  Michael S. Irwig, Ahmed El-Sohemy*, Ana Baylin, Nader Rifai and Hannia Campos2

  Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115; * Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; and Children’s Hospital of Boston, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Boston, MA 02115

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• J Agric Food Chem. 2002 Dec 4;50(25):7449-54.

  Antioxidant and antiproliferative activities of common fruits.

  Sun J, Chu YF, Wu X, Liu RH.

  Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-7201, USA.

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• The Journal of Infectious Diseases    2003;188:1508-1516

  © 2003 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. MAJOR ARTICLE

  Dietary Intake and Risk of Persistent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection: The Ludwig-McGill HPV Natural History Study

  Anna R. Giuliano,1 Erin M. Siegel,1 Denise J. Roe,1 Silvandeiede Ferreira,3 Maria Luiza Baggio,3 Lenice Galan,3 Eliane Duarte-Franco,4 Luisa L. Villa,3 Thomas E. Rohan,2 James R. Marshall,1,a Eduardo L. Franco4

  1University of Arizona Cancer Center and College of Public Health, Tucson; 2Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York; 3Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, São Paolo, Brazil; 4McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Cell Mol Life Sci. 2001 Aug;58(9):1234-45.

  Bromelain: biochemistry, pharmacology and medical use.

  Maurer HR.

  Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Pharmacy, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany.

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Various foods/spices

• Eur J Cancer Prev. 2002 Aug;11(4):365-8.

  Diet and gallbladder cancer: a case-control study.

  Pandey M, Shukla VK.

  Department of Surgical Oncology, Regional Cancer Centre, Medical College PO, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695 011, India.

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• Food Chem Toxicol. 1999 Feb-Mar;37(2-3):95-103.         

  Antimutagens in food plants eaten by Polynesians: micronutrients, phytochemicals and protection against bacterial mutagenicity of the heterocyclic amine 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline.

  Botting KJ, Young MM, Pearson AE, Harris PJ, Ferguson LR.

  Cancer Research Laboratory, University of Auckland Medical School, New Zealand.

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• Food Chem Toxicol. 2002 Aug;40(8):1091-7.        

  Anti-tumor promoting potential of selected spice ingredients with antioxidative and anti-inflammatory activities: a short review.

  Surh YJ.

  Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, 151-742, Seoul, South Korea.

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• Mutat Res. 1999 Jul 16;428(1-2):305-27.         

  Molecular mechanisms of chemopreventive effects of selected dietary and medicinal phenolic substances.

  Surh Y.

  Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Shinlim-dong, Kwanak-gu, Seoul, South Korea. surh@plaza.snu.ac.kr

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• Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2004 Apr-Jun;5(2):126-32.

  Indian food ingredients and cancer prevention - an experimental evaluation of anticarcinogenic effects of garlic in rat colon.

  Sengupta A, Ghosh S, Bhattacharjee S, Das S.

  Department of Cancer Chemoprevention, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Kolkata 700026 India.

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• Expert Opin Investig Drugs. 2004 Oct;13(10):1327-38.       

  From chemoprevention to chemotherapy: common targets and common goals.

  Aggarwal BB, Takada Y, Oommen OV.

  The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Cytokine Research Section, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, PO Box 143, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. aggarwal@mdanderson.org

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• J Postgrad Med. 2003 Jul-Sep;49(3):222-8.

  Cancer risk and diet in India.

  Sinha R, Anderson DE, McDonald SS, Greenwald P.

  Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7273, USA. sinhar@nih.gov

  article online

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Chiles

• Int J Cancer. 2002 Dec 1;102(4):407-11.

      Erratum in:

          * Int J Cancer. 2003 May 10;104(6):798.

  Association of chili pepper consumption, low socioeconomic status, and longstanding gallstones with gallbladder cancer in a Chilean population.

  Serra I, Yamamoto M, Calvo A, Cavada G, Baez S, Endoh K, Watanabe H, Tajima K.

  School of Public Health, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. iserra@machi.med.uchile.cl

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• J Natl Cancer Inst. 2002 Sep 4;94(17):1263-5.

  Comment on:

  * J Natl Cancer Inst. 2002 Sep 4;94(17):1281-92.

  More than spice: capsaicin in hot chili peppers makes tumor cells commit suicide.

  Surh YJ.

  article online

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• Med Hypotheses. 2002 Oct;59(4):450-7.            

  Capsaicin pepper, cancer and ethnicity.

  Archer VE, Jones DW.

  Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111-5120, USA. varcher@dfpm.utah.edu

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• Arch Pharm Res. 2004 Aug;27(8):845-9.            

  Capsaicin-induced apoptosis of H-ras--transformed human breast epithelial cells is Rac-dependent via ROS generation.

  Kim S, Moon A.

  College of Pharmacy, Duksung Women's University, Seoul 132-714, Korea.

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• J Med Food. 2004 Fall;7(3):267-73.            

  Capsaicin, a spicy component of hot pepper, induces apoptosis by activation of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma in HT-29 human colon cancer cells.

  Kim CS, Park WH, Park JY, Kang JH, Kim MO, Kawada T, Yoo H, Han IS, Yu R.

  Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Ulsan, Ulsan.

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• Free Radic Res. 2004 Apr;38(4):405-12.       

  Involvement of NADPH oxidase-mediated generation of reactive oxygen species in the apototic cell death by capsaicin in HepG2 human hepatoma cells.

  Lee YS, Kang YS, Lee JS, Nicolova S, Kim JA.

  College of Pharmacy, Duksung Women's University, Seoul 132-714, South Korea.

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Bitter Melon

• Indian J Exp Biol. 2004 Mar;42(3):319-22.       

  Cancer preventive potential of Momordica charantia L. against benzo(a)pyrene induced fore-stomach tumourigenesis in murine model system.

  Deep G, Dasgupta T, Rao AR, Kale RK.

  Radiation and Cancer Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067, India.

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• Am J Chin Med. 2002;30(2-3):195-205.       

  Effects of bitter melon (Momordica charantia l.) or ginger rhizome (Zingiber offifinale rosc) on spontaneous mammary tumorigenesis in SHN mice.

  Nagasawa H, Watanabe K, Inatomi H.

  Experimental Animal Research Laboratory, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan.

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• J Ethnopharmacol. 2004 Jul;93(1):123-32.            

  Pharmacological actions and potential uses of Momordica charantia: a review.

  Grover JK, Yadav SP.

  Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110049, India. jkgrover@hotmail.com

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• J Med Invest. 2001 Feb;48(1-2):88-96.           

  Inhibitory effects of bitter melon (Momordica charantia Linn.) on bacterial mutagenesis and aberrant crypt focus formation in the rat colon.

  Chiampanichayakul S, Kataoka K, Arimochi H, Thumvijit S, Kuwahara T, Nakayama H, Vinitketkumnuen U, Ohnishi Y.

  Department of Bacteriology, University of Tokushima School of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan.

  cached page-full article online

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• Anticancer Res. 2000 Mar-Apr;20(2A):653-9.        

  Inhibition of MDA-MB-231 human breast tumor xenografts and HER2 expression by anti-tumor agents GAP31 and MAP30.

  Lee-Huang S, Huang PL, Sun Y, Chen HC, Kung HF, Huang PL, Murphy WJ.

  Department of Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, NY 10016, USA.

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Pomegranate

• Cancer Sci. 2004 Jun;95(6):481-6.

  Pomegranate seed oil rich in conjugated linolenic acid suppresses chemically induced colon carcinogenesis in rats.

  Kohno H, Suzuki R, Yasui Y, Hosokawa M, Miyashita K, Tanaka T.

  Department of Pathology, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan. h-kohno@kanazawa-med.ac.jp

  free pdf download from here

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Cucurmin

• Int J Cancer. 2004 Oct 28 [Epub ahead of print]    

  Constitutive activation of transcription factor AP-1 in cervical cancer and suppression of human papillomavirus (HPV) transcription and AP-1 activity in HeLa cells by curcumin.

  Prusty BK, Das BC.

  Division of Molecular Oncology, Institute of Cytology & Preventive Oncology (Indian Council of Medical Research), Maulana Azad Medical College Campus, New Delhi, India.

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• Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2004 Oct 14 [Epub ahead of print]    

  Activation of PPAR{gamma} by curcumin inhibits Moser cell growth and mediates the suppression of the gene expression of cyclinD1 and EGFR.

  Chen A, Xu J.

  Department of Pathology, Louisiana State University Health Science Center in Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA.

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• J Assoc Physicians India. 2003 Nov;51:1055-60.            

  Early human safety study of turmeric oil (Curcuma longa oil) administered orally in healthy volunteers.

  Joshi J, Ghaisas S, Vaidya A, Vaidya R, Kamat DV, Bhagwat AN, Bhide S.

  Bhavan's Swami Prakashananda Ayurveda Research Centre, 13th NS Road, Juhu, Mumbai 400 049.

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• Biochem Pharmacol. 2004 Nov 15;68(10):2043-52.             

  Biochemical mechanism of modulation of human P-glycoprotein (ABCB1) by curcumin I, II, and III purified from Turmeric powder.

  Chearwae W, Anuchapreeda S, Nandigama K, Ambudkar SV, Limtrakul P.

  Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.

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• Antitumor activity of curcumin is mediated through the induction of apoptosis in AK-5 tumor cells

  Ashok Khar *, A. Mubarak Ali , B.V.V. Pardhasaradhi , Zareena Begum , Rana Anjum

  Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India

  Received 29 December 1998

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Cumin

• Nutr Cancer. 2003;47(2):171-80.       

  Chemopreventive effects of Cuminum cyminum in chemically induced forestomach and uterine cervix tumors in murine model systems.

  Gagandeep, Dhanalakshmi S, Mendiz E, Rao AR, Kale RK.

  Radiation and Cancer Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India.

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Cumin, black

• Nutr Cancer. 2003;45(2):195-202.     

  Chemopreventive potential of volatile oil from black cumin (Nigella sativa L.) seeds against rat colon carcinogenesis.

  Salim EI, Fukushima S.

  Laboratory of Experimental and Molecular Carcinogenesis, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta 31527-Egypt.

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