Sentences with phrase «quercetin induces»

Quercetin induces apoptosis, or the programmed self - destruction of cancer cells.

In a study published this year in Current Drug Targets, a combination of tocotrienols and quercetin induced senescence and promoted apoptosis in many different types of cancer cells, while delaying senescence in healthy cells and rejuvenating formerly healthy senescent cells.

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Quercetin has the ability to steal the iron from cancer cells which can stop their growth and induce cell death.

There's no way I could do justice to the complex mixture of phytochemicals in those plants, but various glucosinolates (really, their isothiocyanate products) and quercetin from kale; the anthocyanins from blueberries; mangiferin from mangos; and gallic acid, ellagic acid, quercetin, kaempferol from amla all induce the «adaptive stress response» as described above.

By clearing away senile cells and inducing aging in malignant cells, quercetin and tocotrienols could stop tumors from growing.

When cancer cells were treated with quercetin, the flavonol «robustly» induced their death, the team reported.

In a 2013 study, researchers had found that quercetin inhibited the growth of pancreatic cancer cells by inducing apoptosis, or «cell suicide.»