How do triterpenoids relate to cancer prevention?

Published: Jan. 8, 2007, 5:02 p.m.

b"Triterpenoids and Chemoprevention: A Dartmouth Collaboration\\n\\nFor 11 years, Dartmouth chemists Gordon Gribble and Tadashi Honda have collaborated with Dr. Michael Sporn, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Dartmouth Medical School, to create drugs that prevent and treat cancer. In 1998, Gribble's lab synthesized CDDO, a synthetic triterpenoid. This compound and one of its derivatives are now in Phase I clinical trials for solid tumors and leukemia.\\n\\nThis is a web extra to an article that appeared in the Winter 2006 issue of Dartmouth Medicine Magazine. To read the article, go to:\\nhttp://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/winter06/html/compound_interest.php"