Issue 5 of Food & Function is now available to read online!
The front cover this month features work by Young Hee Choi, Sang-Yong Nam and co-workers from Seoul, Republic of Korea. In their work, Eastern Prickly Pear cactus stem was extracted with different solvents and screened for radical scavenging activity. The results suggest that bioactive compounds present in the cactus stem extract may help prevent cancer through the modulation of apoptosis markers and inhibition of inflammatory pathways.
This article is free to access for the next six weeks. To read it in full, click the link below:
Chemopreventive effect of cactus (Opuntia humifusa) extracts: radical scavenging activity, pro-apoptosis, and anti-inflammatory effect in human colon (SW480) and breast cancer (MCF7) cells, Jinhee Kim, Kwang Hyun Jho, Young Hee Choi and Sang-Yong Nam, Food Funct., 2013, 4, 681–688
