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  2. Bromelain - Wikipedia

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    Bromelain extract is a mixture of protein-digesting (proteolytic) enzymes and several other substances in smaller quantities. The proteolytic enzymes are sulfhydryl proteases; a free sulfhydryl group of a cysteine amino acid side chain is required for function.

  3. List of herbs with known adverse effects - Wikipedia

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    May worsen hormone sensitive conditions such as breast cancer, uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, endometriosis, and uterine fibroids. [17] Insomnia. [17] Goldenseal: orangeroot, yellow puccoon Hydrastis canadensis: Uterotonic [3] Greater celandine: celandine Chelidonium majus: Liver damage [4] Guarana: Paullinia cupana: Agitation and insomnia [3 ...

  4. Grapefruit–drug interactions - Wikipedia

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    The effect was first discovered accidentally in 1989, when a test of drug interactions with alcohol used grapefruit juice to hide the taste of the ethanol. [9] [10] A 2005 medical review advised patients to avoid all citrus juices until further research clarifies the risks. [11]

  5. List of pineapple diseases - Wikipedia

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    Pineapple black rot: Chalara paradoxa = Thielaviopsis paradoxa Ceratocystis paradoxa [teleomorph] Leaf spot Curvularia eragrostidis Cochliobolus eragrostidis [teleomorph] Phytophthora heart rot Phytophthora cinnamomi Phytophthora nicotianae var. parasitica = Phytophthora parasitica. Root rot Pythium spp. Pythium arrhenomanes. Seedling blight ...

  6. Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of ...

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    Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective, also known as the Expert Report, was an expert report published by the World Cancer Research Fund global network in 2007. It reviewed all the evidence about the links between cancer and diet, physical activity and body fat and contains 10 recommendations for ...

  7. Chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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    Nutritional problems are also frequently seen in cancer patients at diagnosis and through chemotherapy treatment. Research suggests that in children and young people undergoing cancer treatment, parenteral nutrition may help with this leading to weight gain and increased calorie and protein intake, when compared to enteral nutrition. [138]

  8. Polyphenol - Wikipedia

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    [2] [85] [86] [87] Research is limited on the effect of this inhibition on iron status. [ 88 ] Metabolism of polyphenols can result in flavonoid-drug interactions, such as in grapefruit–drug interactions , which involves inhibition of the liver enzyme , CYP3A4 , likely by grapefruit furanocoumarins , a class of polyphenol.

  9. Antimetabolite - Wikipedia

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    Because of this mode of action, most antimetabolites have high cell cycle specificity and can target arrest of cancer cell DNA replication. [7] Anthracyclines are anti-tumor antibiotics that interfere with enzymes involved in copying DNA during the cell cycle. [4] Examples of anthracyclines include: Daunorubicin; Doxorubicin (Adriamycin ...