Anti-tumour activity of deer growing antlers and its potential applications in the treatment of malignant gliomas

Abstract A recent study showed that antlers have evolved a high rate of growth due to the expression of proto-oncogenes and that they have also evolved to express several tumour suppressor genes to control the risk of cancer. This may explain why deer antler velvet (DAV) extract shows anti-tumour ac...

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Main Authors: Louis Chonco, Tomás Landete-Castillejos, Gemma Serrano-Heras, Martina Pérez Serrano, Francisco Javier Pérez-Barbería, Carlos González-Armesto, Andrés García, Carlos de Cabo, Jose Manuel Lorenzo, Chunyi Li, Tomás Segura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79779-w