Proceedings of the Korean Society of Toxicology Conference (한국독성학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2001.05a
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- Pages.148-148
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- 2001
THE DIFFERENCES IN REGULATION OF COX-2 EXPRESSION BETWEEN ESTROGEN AND ISOFLAVONES
- Shin, Jang-In (Applied Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Hannam University) ;
- Kim, Jung-Hwan (College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University) ;
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Park, Ock-Jin
(Applied Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Hannam University)
- Published : 2001.05.01
Abstract
Estrogen is known to exert potent vasodilating effects accompanied with an elevation of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX -2) expression. Structurally similar compounds, isoflavones, have shown in our previous study that they stimulate COX-2 of the heart of animals fed soy isoflavones.(omitted)
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