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SUBMITTER: Pan D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9030732 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pan Dongjin D Huang Bingyao B Gan Yuman Y Gao Chenghai C Liu Yonghong Y Tang Zhenzhou Z
Marine drugs 20220409 4
Phycocyanin (PC) is a pigment-protein complex. It has been reported that PC exerts anti-colorectal cancer activities, although the underlying mechanism has not been fully elucidated. In the present study, azoxymethane (AOM)/dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced mice were orally administrated with PC, followed by microbiota and transcriptomic analyses to investigate the effects of PC on colitis-associated cancer (CAC). Our results indicated that PC ameliorated AOM/DSS induced inflammation. PC trea ...[more]