Cancer Gene Therapies

Plant-Based Fat Inhibits Cell Growth by Enhancing Signaling System

Published in Sex Weekly Plus, November 2nd, 1998

Nutrition researchers at the University at Buffalo (UB), Buffalo, New York, have provided evidence that a plant-based fat called B-sitosterol appears to play a role in inhibiting the growth of human prostate cancer cells.

They found that the phytosterol B-sitosterol, a fat abundant in vegetarian diets, enhances an intracellular signaling system that tells cells not to divide. The study showed a 28 percent inhibition of prostate cancer cell growth after being exposed to B-sitosterol for five days in vitro.

Atif Awad, PhD, presented the results on at the Sixth International Conference of Anti-Cancer Research, held in Kallithea, Greece, during October...

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