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CURRENT ISSUES IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages 127-141Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cimb43010011
Keywords
skin wound; repair; regeneration; phytoestrogen; SERM; isoflavone; scar
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- Slovak Research and Development Agency [APVV-16-0207]
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Estrogen plays a complex role in wound healing and cancer, with current research focusing on naturally occurring SERMs. By utilizing natural products isolated from plants, such as genistein in soy, as potential alternatives, tissue-specific effects can be achieved in a promising manner.
Estrogen deprivation is one of the major factors responsible for many age-related processes including poor wound healing in postmenopausal women. However, the reported side-effects of estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) have precluded broad clinical administration. Therefore, selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) have been developed to overcome the detrimental side effects of ERT on breast and/or uterine tissues. The use of natural products isolated from plants (e.g., soy) may represent a promising source of biologically active compounds (e.g., genistein) as efficient alternatives to conventional treatment. Genistein as natural SERM has the unique ability to selectively act as agonist or antagonist in a tissue-specific manner, i.e., it improves skin repair and simultaneously exerts anti-cancer and chemopreventive properties. Hence, we present here a wound healing phases-based review of the most studied naturally occurring SERM.
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