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Folia histochemica et cytobiologica • 2009 | View Paper
“Although, beta-carotene and lycopene belong to the different chemical groups, they surprisingly had a similar inhibitory influence on both growth and proliferation of MCF-7 breast cancer cells when combined with docetaxel.”
“Among the examined vitamin A family compounds, the simultaneous application of beta-carotene (0.1 microM) and docetaxel (0.2 microM) resulted in a statistically significant reduction in the percentage of proliferating cells (40.25 +/- 14.62%, p<0.01).”
“The application of docetaxel either with beta-carotene or lycopene had comparable inhibitory effect on breast cells growth and proliferation as tamoxifen.”