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Vanadium in cancer prevention

Vanadium: Biochemical and Molecular Biological Approaches, Vol: 9789400709133, Page: 163-185
2012
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The pharmacological role of vanadium in health and disease remains one of the fascinating stories in biology. Recent studies have established vanadium as a novel regulator in assessing physiological and biochemical states of the animals. Vanadium exhibits biphasic effect, essentiality at low concentrations (0.05 μM) and toxicity at high doses (>10 μM). Vanadium inhibits growth of transformed cancer cells in culture. Various laboratories have confirmed the antitumorigenic potential of vanadium in liver, breast and colon cancer in vivo and various human cancer epithelial cell lines in vitro. Antiproliferative and induction of apoptosis may be the major mechanism of vanadium mediated inhibitions of cancer. Vanadium can play a central role in modulating phosphorylation states of various proteins in the cell and can affect many cellular processes regulated by cyclic AMP. In human vanadium is of interest pharmacologically but confirmation to its essentiality will require more significant information from experimental, clinical and epidemiological studies.

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