The Natural First Steroidal Alkaloid in Mammals Identified and It Acts as a Tumor Suppressor
February 23, 2016 | Terry Sharrer
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In the interaction of cholesterol and histamine, investigators at the Cancer Research Center of the University of Toulouse, France, have discovered the first steroidal alkaloid, named dendrogenic A, that acts as a tumor suppressing protein. They believe that this represents a new pathway for cancer suppressing drugs which likely would target a tumor’s acidic microenvironment. MORE
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