Chemopreventive potential of cyclic diarylheptanoids.

Eleven cyclic diarylheptanoids and seven related compounds were screened as potential antitumor promoters by using the in vitro short-term 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-induced Epstein-Barr virus early antigen (EBV-EA) activation assay. In addition, the cyclic diarylheptanoid myricanone (2) was examined for antitumor initiating activity in a two-stage carcinogenesis assay of mouse skin tumors induced by peroxynitrite as an initiator and TPA as a promoter. Myricanone (2) exhibited significant antitumor-initiating effect on mouse skin. These data suggest that cyclic, as well as linear, diarylheptanoids might be valuable chemopreventors.

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