Antrodia cinnamomea extract inhibits the proliferation of tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer cells through apoptosis and skp2/microRNAs pathway

Abstract Background Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and affects 1.38 million women worldwide per year. Antiestrogens such as tamoxifen, a selective estrogen receptor (ER) modulator, are widely used in clinics to treat ER-positive breast tumors. However, remissions of breast cancer a...

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Main Authors: Yu-Shih Lin, Yin-Yin Lin, Yao-Hsu Yang, Chun-Liang Lin, Feng-Che Kuan, Cheng-Nan Lu, Geng-He Chang, Ming-Shao Tsai, Cheng-Ming Hsu, Reming-Albert Yeh, Pei-Rung Yang, I-Yun Lee, Li-Hsin Shu, Yu-Ching Cheng, Hung-Te Liu, Kuan-Der Lee, De-Ching Chang, Ching-Yuan Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12906-018-2204-y