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Polymeric polyphenols inhibited hematologic tumor cell lines

Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 15th, 2006

Water-soluble polymeric polyphenols inhibited proliferation and altered cell cycle distribution patterns of hematologic tumor cell lines.

According to a recent article published in the journal Cancer Letters, "To explore possible anti-cancer properties of water-soluble, polymeric polyphenols from cinnamon, three myeloid cell lines (Jurkat, Wurzburg, and U937) were exposed to increasing concentrations of an aqueous extract prepared from cinnamon (CE) for 24 h. Cell growth and cell cycle distribution patterns responded in a dose-dependent manner to CE. That is, an increase in the percentage of cells distributed in G2/M was observed in all three cell lines as the...

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