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M S Stewart1, R L Davis, L P Walsh, B C Pence.
Abstract
To explore the mechanism(s) by which selenium (Se) exerts its cancer chemopreventive activity, we studied the effect of selenite (0-100 microM) on cell growth, viability, differentiation, detachment, DNA fragmentation and apoptosis in human colonic carcinoma cells (HT29). Selenite (>5 microM) decreased cell growth, increased cell detachment and decreased intracellular levels of reduced glutathione (GSH), whereas >10 microM selenite induced cell differentiation and apoptosis. The chemopreventive effects of selenite may be related in part to the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) resulting from the reaction between selenite and GSH.Entities:
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Year: 1997 PMID: 9233829 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3835(97)00212-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cancer Lett ISSN: 0304-3835 Impact factor: 8.679