Researchers have identified an elusive anti-cancer property of vitamin E that has long been presumed to exist, but difficult to find. In this new work, researchers showed in prostate cancer cells that one form of vitamin E inhibits the activation of an enzyme that is essential for cancer cell survival. The loss of the enzyme, called Akt, led to tumor cell death. The vitamin had no negative effect on normal cells. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Huang PH, et al. Vitamin E Facilitates the Inactivation of the Kinase Akt by the Phosphatase PHLPP1. Sci Signal. 2013 Mar 19;6(267):ra19. PMID: 23512990
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