Cited by 191Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative StressPhytochemicals and Antioxidant ActivitiesRetinoids in leukemia and cellular processes

Biological activity of lycopene metabolites: implications for cancer prevention: Nutrition Reviews©, Vol. 66, No. 12

Open access
Mein, Jonathan R, Lian, Fuzhi, Wang, Xiang-Dong·2008·Nutrition Reviews

Abstract

While early studies focused on the potential roles in health and disease of provitamin A carotenoids, such as beta-carotene, research over the past decade has provided a framework for our understanding of the functions of non-provitamin A carotenoids such as lycopene, especially in regards to its association with a reduced risk of a number of chronic diseases, including cancer. Recent data suggests that lycopene metabolites may possess specific biological activities on several important cellular signaling pathways and molecular targets. Carotenoid metabolites may have more important biological roles than their parent compounds in human health and disease. This notion has been reinforced by the observation of both beneficial and detrimental effects of carotenoid metabolites in cancer prevention.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2008.00120.x

Cites

139 of 139 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Lycopene is a powerful antioxidant both in vitro and in vivo against oxidation of proteins, lipids, and DNA, and one of the most potent scavengers of singlet oxygen free radicals among carotenoids.

    “Lycopene is a powerful antioxidant both in vitro and in vivo against the oxidation of proteins, lipids, and DNA, and it has been identified as one of the most potent scavengers of singlet species of oxygen free radicals—the highest among the carotenoids [6, 7].”
  • Growth inhibition of lycopene on MCF-7 breast cancer cells is associated with decreased G1-S cell cycle progression, decreased cyclin D1 expression, and stabilization of p27 in the cyclin E-CDK complex.

    “It has been reported that the growth inhibition of lycopene on MCF-7 breast cancer cells was also associated with decreased G1-S cell cycle progression, decreased cyclin D1 expression, and stabilization of p27 in the cyclin E-CDK complex [7, 66].”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. [11]Mernitz H, Wang XD. The bioconversion of carotenoids into vitamin A: implications for cancer prevention In: Loessing IT, ed. Vitamin A: New Research. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.; 2007: 39– 57.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Mein, J. R., Lian, F., & Wang, X.-D.
Affiliations
Tufts University (US)
Corresponding author
Mein, Jonathan R
Venue
Nutrition Reviews
Published
2008-11-19
Volume
66
Issue
12
Pages
667-683
ISSN
0029-6643 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2150702359
Cited by
191
References
139
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 12
FWCI
0.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nutrition Reviews (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture (58-1950-7-707)
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Agricultural Research Service (No. 58-1950-7-707, 581950-7-707)
  • National Cancer Institute (R01CA104932)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Biochemistry › Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Biochemistry › Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes
Keywords
carotenoids, cancer prevention, cellular signaling pathways, molecular targets, chronic disease risk
MeSH terms
Lycopene, Animals, Antioxidants, Carotenoids, Humans, Neoplasms, Oxygenases, Signal Transduction

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review