[Following treatment of the hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines BEL-7402 and QGY-7703 with EGCG, in vitro, EGCG significantly suppressed cell proliferation as detected by MTT assay, induced apoptosis as detected by flow cytometry, dramatically lowered the expression levels of phosphorylated Stat3 proteins (p-Stat3) as determined by immunoblot detection, and inhibited the expression of multiple genes including Bcl-xL, c-Myc, VEGF and cyclin D1 as demonstrated by RT-PCR analysis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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