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Effect of Caffeine in Genetic and Cancer (review article) | ||
| Kerbala Journal of Medicine | ||
| Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 366-369 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Ali Abdul Hussein S. AL-Janabi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| affeine is one of purine compounds which occur naturally in different species of plants such as: tea, coffee and cacao plants. DNA synthesis and replication are affected by caffeine through different methods and these will lead to exhibition of more than one effect in cell division. Caffeine has not proved to have a mutagenic effect, but it prevents the action of mutagenic compounds. Harmful activity of UV is blocked by caffeine when it is added to the treated cells with UV light. Furthermore, caffeine is not found to have a chief role in the conversion normal cells to cancer state, but, in fact, it has a reflexive action when it prevents the carcinogenic compounds to effect on cell division. | ||
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