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Reactive oxygen species and cancer paradox: To promote or to suppress?

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This review focuses on the current understanding of the tumor promoting and the tumor suppressive functions of ROS, and highlights the potential mechanism(s) involved, and sheds light on a very novel and an actively growing field of ROS‐dependent cell death mechanism referred to as ferroptosis.
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This article is published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine.The article was published on 2017-03-01. It has received 666 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cancer stem cell & Cancer cell.

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Glutathione metabolism in cancer progression and treatment resistance.

TL;DR: Recent studies that focus on deciphering the role of GSH in tumor initiation and progression as well as mechanisms underlying how GSH imparts treatment resistance to growing cancers are discussed.
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ROS Generation and Antioxidant Defense Systems in Normal and Malignant Cells

TL;DR: This review covers the current data on the mechanisms of ROS generation and existing antioxidant systems balancing the redox state in mammalian cells that can also be related to tumors.
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Reactive Oxygen Species and Mitochondrial Dynamics: The Yin and Yang of Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Cancer Progression

TL;DR: The latest findings on the intricate relationship between mitochondrial dynamics and ROS production are reviewed, focusing mainly on its role in malignant disease.
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Melatonin, a Full Service Anti-Cancer Agent: Inhibition of Initiation, Progression and Metastasis.

TL;DR: The experimental findings suggest that the advantages of using melatonin as a co-treatment with conventional cancer therapies would far exceed improvements in the wellbeing of the patients.
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The biochemistry of apoptosis

TL;DR: The basic components of the death machinery are reviewed, how they interact to regulate apoptosis in a coordinated manner is described, and the main pathways that are used to activate cell death are discussed.
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Ferroptosis: An Iron-Dependent Form of Nonapoptotic Cell Death

TL;DR: This paper identified the small molecule ferrostatin-1 as a potent inhibitor of ferroptosis in cancer cells and glutamate-induced cell death in organotypic rat brain slices, suggesting similarities between these two processes.
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The effect of vitamin E and beta carotene on the incidence of lung cancer and other cancers in male smokers

TL;DR: No reduction in the incidence of lung cancer among male smokers is found after five to eight years of dietary supplementation with alpha-tocopherol or beta carotene, and this trial raises the possibility that these supplements may actually have harmful as well as beneficial effects.
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ROS Function in Redox Signaling and Oxidative Stress

TL;DR: It is argued that redox biology, rather than oxidative stress, underlies physiological and pathological conditions.
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Bioavailability of curcumin: problems and promises.

TL;DR: Enhanced bioavailability of curcumin in the near future is likely to bring this promising natural product to the forefront of therapeutic agents for treatment of human disease.
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