REFERENCES
- Hulka , B S and Moorman , P G . 2001 . Breast cancer: hormones and other risk factors . Maturitas , 38 : 103 – 113 .
- Benjamin , C W , Hiebsch , R R and Jones , D A . 1998 . Caspase activation in MCF7 cells responding to etoposide treatment . Molecular Pharmacology , 53 : 446 – 450 .
- Newman , D J , Cragg , G M and Snader , K M . 2003 . Natural products as sources of new drugs over the period 1981–2002 . J Nat. Prod , 66 : 1022 – 1037 .
- Geuns , J M . 2003 . Stevioside . Phytochemistry , 64 : 913 – 921 .
- Chen , T H , Chen , S C , Chan , P , Chu , Y L Yang , H Y . 2005 . Mechanism of the hypoglycemic effect of stevioside, a glycoside of Stevia rebaudiana . Planta Med , 71 ( 2 ) : 108 – 113 .
- Hsieh , M H , Chan , P , Sue , Y M , Liu , J C Liang , T H . 2003 . Efficacy and tolerability of oral stevioside in patients with mild essential hypertension: a two-year, randomized, placebocontrolled study . Clin Ther , 25 : 2797 – 2808 .
- Yasukawa , K , Kitanaka , S and Seo , S . 2002 . Inhibitory effect of stevioside on tumor promotion by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate in two-stage carcinogenesis in mouse skin . Biol Pharm Bull , 25 ( 11 ) : 1488 – 1490 .
- Takasaki , M , Konoshim , T , Kozuka , M , Tokuda , H Takayasu , J . 2009 . Cancer preventive agents: Part 8. Chemopreventive effects of stevioside and related compounds . Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry , 17 : 600 – 605 .
- Melis , M S . 1992 . Stevioside effect on renal function of normal and hypertensive rats . J Ethnopharmacol , 36 : 213 – 217 .
- Boonkaewwan , C , Ao , M , Toskulkao , C and Rao , M C . 2008 . Specific immunomodulatory and secretory activities of stevioside and steviol in intestinal cells . J Agric. Food Chem , 56 : 3777 – 3784 .
- Thompson , C B . 1995 . Apoptosis in the pathogenesis and treatment of disease . Science , 267 : 1456 – 1462 .
- West , J D and Marnett , L J . 2006 . Endogenous reactive intermediates as modulators of cell signaling and cell death . Chem Res Toxicol , 19 : 173 – 194 .
- Budihardjo , I , Oliver , H , Lutter , M , Luo , X and Wang , X . 1999 . Biochemical pathways of caspase activation during apoptosis . Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol , 15 : 269 – 290 .
- Orrenius , S . 1993 . “ Mechanisms of oxidative cell damage ” . In Free radicals: from basic science to medicine , Edited by: Pol , G , Albano , E and Dianzani , M U . 47 – 64 . Basel , , Switzerland : Birkhauser Verlag .
- Vaux , D L and Korsmeyer , S J . 1999 . Cell death in development . Cell , 96 : 245 – 254 .
- Shih , C M , Ko , W C , Wu , J S , Wei , Y H Wang , L F . 2004 . Mediating caspase-independent apoptosis by cadmium through mitochondria-ROS pathway in MRC-5 fibroblasts . J. Cell. Biochem , 91 : 383 – 397 .
- Hsu , Y H , Liu , J C , Kao , P F , Lee , C N Chen , Y J . 2002 . Antihypertensive effect of stevioside in different strains of hypertensive rats . Chin Med J , 65 : 1 – 6 .
- Roos , W P and Kaina , B . 2006 . DNA damage-induced cell death by apoptosis . Trends Mol Med , 12 : 440 – 450 .
- Bradham , C A , Qian , T , Streetz , K , Trautwein , C Brenner , D A . 1998 . The mitochondrial permeability transition is required for tumor necrosis factor alpha-mediated apoptosis and cytochrome c release . Mol Cell Biol , 18 : 6353 – 6364 .
- Grimm , S and Brdiczka , D . 2007 . The permeability transition pore in cell death . Apoptosis , 12 : 841 – 855 .
- Tadhani , M B , Patel , V H and Subhash , R . 2007 . In vitro antioxidant activities of Stevia rebaudiana leaves and callus . Journal of Food Composition and Analysis , 20 : 323 – 329 .
- Halliwell , B and Gutteridge , JMC II . 1989 . Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine , Oxford , , UK : Clarendon .
- Korsmeyer , S J . 1995 . Regulators of cell death . Trends Genet , 11 : 101 – 105 .
- Alnemri , E S , Livingston , D J , Nicholson , D W , Salvesen , G Thornberry , N A . 1996 . Human ICE/CED-3 protease nomenclature . Cell , 8 : 71
- Bargou , R C , Daniel , P T , Mapara , M Y , Bommert , K Wagener , C . 1995 . Expression of the bcl-2 gene family in normal and malignant breast tissue: low baxalpha expression in tumor cells correlates with resistance towards apoptosis . Int. J. Cancer , 60 : 854 – 859 .
- Hu , H , Ahn , N S , Yang , X , Lee , Y S and Kang , K S . 2002 . Ganoderma lucidumextract induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in MCF-7 human breast cancer cell . Int. J. Cancer , 102 : 250 – 253 .
- Yuan , J Y , Shaham , S , Ledoux , S , Ellis , H M and Horvitz , H R . 1993 . The C. elegans cell death gene ced-3 encodes a protein similar to mammalian interleukin-1 beta-converting enzyme . Cell , 75 : 641 – 652 .
- D’Autreaux , B and Toledano , M B . 2007 . ROS as signalling molecules: mechanisms that generate specificity in ROS homeostasis . Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol , 8 : 813 – 824 .
- Zhang , Y and Gordon , G B . 2004 . A strategy for cancer prevention: stimulation of the Nrf2-ARE signaling pathway . Mol Cancer Ther , 3 : 885 – 893 .