title: Natural products and their derivatives as cancer chemopreventive agents.
abstract: This review summarizes currently available data on the chemopreventive efficacies, proposed mechanisms of action and relationships between activities and structures of natural products like vitamin D, calcium, dehydroepidandrosterone, coenzyme Q10, celery seed oil, parsley leaf oil, sulforaphane, isoflavonoids, lignans, protease inhibitors, tea polyphenols, curcumin, and polysaccharides from Acanthopanax genus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Lien
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016588:Anticarcinogenic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002136:Calcium, Dietary / Q000494:pharmacology; D003067:Coenzymes; D003687:Dehydroepiandrosterone / Q000494:pharmacology; D005419:Flavonoids; D006801:Humans; D017705:Lignans / Q000494:pharmacology; D010636:Phenols / Q000494:pharmacology; D011108:Polymers / Q000494:pharmacology; D059808:Polyphenols; D011480:Protease Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D014451:Ubiquinone / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D016588:Anticarcinogenic Agents; D002136:Calcium, Dietary; D003067:Coenzymes; D005419:Flavonoids; D017705:Lignans; D010636:Phenols; D011108:Polymers; D059808:Polyphenols; D011480:Protease Inhibitors; D014451:Ubiquinone; D014807:Vitamin D; D003687:Dehydroepiandrosterone; C024989:coenzyme Q10