Thymoquinone-induced oxidative stress targets highly aggressive prostate cancers, researchers find

Thursday, June 3, 2010 - 09:22 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have demonstrated that thymoquinone (TQ) a major component of black seed oil (Nigella sativa) can suppress the growth of several aggressive prostate cancer (PCa) cell lines, in vitro. Although previous studies have shown the anti-proliferative effects of TQ in different types of cancers, the molecular mechanism of this effect of TQ had not been delineated.

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