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CLINICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 312, Issue 1-2, Pages 213-219Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(01)00626-X
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phytoestrogens; natural estrogens; steroid hormone activity; cancer preventions; nutraceuticals
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Background: There is an increasing trend in the use of complementary and alternative therapies to treat or prevent hormonally dependent pathologies. Methods determined whether several of these natural products and nutraceuticals, commonly taken For hormone-related effects, possess steroid hormone activity. The agonist and antagonist estrogenic, androgenic, and progestational activities of 20 natural products and nutraceuticals were assessed using an in vitro tissue culture indicator system. Two steroid-regulated proteins (pS2 and prostate-specific antigen [PSA]) were quantified, using ELISA-type immunoassays, as markers of agonist and antagonist activity. Results: Four of the products tested, two isoflavone preparations, Promensil(TM) and Estro-Logic(TM); chamomile, and rapeseed extracts, were found to have weak estrogenic agonist activity, with the latter two also demonstrating weak progestational activity. Several of the products tested exhibited antagonistic (blocking) activity, including antiestrogenic activity by Prostate-Ease, wild yam root, and dong quai, and anti androgenic activity by dong quai, Promensil(TM), and rosehips. Conclusions: Several of these natural products demonstrate weak steroid hormone activity. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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