ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2019
The Antitumor Effect of Curcumin in Urothelial Cancer Cells Is Enhanced by Light Exposure In Vitro.
Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Natural Products Targeting Acetylation in Bladder Cancer: Mechanistic Basis, Therapeutic Potential, and Future Perspectives.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Review
- Curcumin: biochemistry, pharmacology, advanced drug delivery systems, and its epigenetic role in combating cancer.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- Visible light potentiates rapid cell destruction and death by curcumin in vitro.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2024Article
- Dual Action of Curcumin as an Anti- and Pro-Oxidant from a Biophysical Perspective.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Curcumin a Natural Phenol and Its Therapeutic Role in Cancer and Photodynamic Therapy: A Review.Pharmaceutics · 2023Review
- Insight into the Progress on Natural Dyes: Sources, Structural Features, Health Effects, Challenges, and Potential.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Growth, Proliferation and Metastasis of Prostate Cancer Cells Is Blocked by Low-Dose Curcumin in Combination with Light Irradiation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Role of Curcumin and (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-Cancers · 2020Review
- Curcumin-A Viable Agent for Better Bladder Cancer Treatment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
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- The Cytoprotective Role of Antioxidants in Mammalian Cells Under Rapidly Varying UV Conditions During Stratospheric Balloon Campaign.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2019Article
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Abstract
The natural compound curcumin exerts antitumor properties in vitro, but its clinical application is limited due to low bioavailability. Light exposure in skin and skin cancer cells has been shown to improve curcumin bioavailability; thus, the object of this investigation was to determine whether light exposure might also enhance curcumin efficacy in bladder cancer cell lines. RT112, UMUC3, and TCCSUP cells were preincubated with low curcumin concentrations (0.1-0.4
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