General Direct Anticancer Effects of Deer Growing Antler Extract in Several Tumour Cell Lines, and Immune System-Mediated Effects in Xenograft Glioblastoma

• Main Authors: Alessandra Rossetti (Author), Louis Chonco (Author), Nicolas Alegría (Author), Veronica Zelli (Author), Andrés J. García (Author), Carmen Ramírez-Castillejo (Author), Alessandra Tessitore (Author), Carlos de Cabo (Author), Tomás Landete-Castillejos (Author), Claudio Festuccia (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Deer antlers are the fastest growing tissue. Because they are based on proto-oncogenes, to avoid the risk of cancer, antlers evolved strong anticancer mechanisms, and thus their extract (DVA) is effective also against the few human tumours studied so far. We assessed whether DVA is a general antican...