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    A pro longevity role for cellular senescence

    Cellular senescence is a fundamental process that may play positive or detrimental roles for the organism. It is involved in tissue development and in tumor prevention although during aging is becoming a detri...

    Amany Attaallah, Monia Lenzi, Silvia Marchionni, Giacomo Bincoletto in GeroScience (2020)

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    Meripilus giganteus ethanolic extract exhibits pro-apoptotic and anti-proliferative effects in leukemic cell lines

    The interest towards botanicals and plant extracts has strongly risen due to their numerous biological effects and ability to counteract chronic diseases development. Among these effects, chemoprevention which...

    Monia Lenzi, Veronica Cocchi in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2018)

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    Castanea sativa Mill. bark extract exhibits chemopreventive properties triggering extrinsic apoptotic pathway in Jurkat cells

    Chemoprevention represents the possibility to prevent, stop or reverse the cancerogenetic process. In this context the interest towards natural extracts and botanical drugs has constantly grown due to their ph...

    Monia Lenzi, Marco Malaguti, Veronica Cocchi in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2017)

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    Sulforaphane as a Promising Molecule for Fighting Cancer

    Cancer is a complex disease characterized by multiple genetic and molecular alterations involving transformation, deregulation of apoptosis, proliferation, invasion, angiogenesis, and metastasis. To grow, inva...

    Monia Lenzi, Carmela Fimognari, Patrizia Hrelia in Advances in Nutrition and Cancer (2014)