Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2013
Abstract
This review deals with biological activity of quercetin with the use of newer data from PubMed database. Quercetin is a flavonoid of natural origin possessing antiinflamatory and antioxidative properties.
Studies of quercetin effects on normal and tumor cells are resulting in a new information about posibilities of quercetin use in cancer therapy. These studies on quercetin cellular effects in cancer cells elucidated the fact that quercetin application leads in these cells to significant increase of apoptotic processes when these cells produce protein p53.