Anticancer and Cancer Chemopreventive Potential of Grape Seed Extract and Other Grape-Based Products
Anticancer and Cancer Chemopreventive Potential of Grape Seed Extract and Other Grape-Based Products
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DOI:
10.3945/jn.109.106864
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发表时间:
2009-09-01
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Agarwal, Rajesh
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作者:
Kaur, Manjinder;Agarwal, Chapla;Agarwal, Rajesh
With emerging trends in the incidence of cancer of various organ sites, additional approaches are needed to control humanmalignancies. Intervention or prevention of cancer by dietary constituents, a strategy defined as chemoprevention, holdsgreat promise in our conquest to control cancer, because it can be implemented on a broader population base with lesseconomic burden. Consistent with this, several epidemiological studies have shown that populations that consume dietsrich in fruits and vegetables have an overall lower cancer incidence. Based on these encouraging observations, researchefforts from across the globe have focused on identifying, characterizing, and providing scientific basis to the efficacy ofvarious phytonutrients in an effort to develop effective strategy to control various human malignancies. Cancer induction,growth, and progression are multi-step events and numerous studies have demonstrated that various dietary agentsinterfere with these stages of cancer, thus blocking malignancy. Fruits and vegetables represent untapped reservoir ofvarious nutritive and nonnutritive phytochemicals with potential cancer chemopreventive activity. Grapes and grape-basedproducts are one such class of dietary products that have shown cancer chemopreventive potential and are also known toimprove overall human health. This review focuses on recent advancements in cancer chemopreventive and anticancerefficacy of grape seed extract and other grape-based products. Overall, completed studies from various scientific groupsconclude that both grapes and grape-based products are excellent sources of various anticancer agents and their regularconsumption should thus be beneficial to the general population.