Studying the anti-cancer mechanisms of acetyltanshinone IIA and discovering apoptosis-inducing compounds from traditional Chinese medicine

• Main Author: Yu, Ting
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55579
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Breast cancer is a major type of cancer in women which caused 460,000 deaths worldwide in 2008. Breast cancer can be classified into three types based on their receptor status: ER positive: express estrogen receptor (70%); HER2 positive: over-express human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (20%); t...