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• Low ALA acid content of adipose breast tissue is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer.
  • Klein, Eur J Cancer (2000) ;36:335-40

• The antioxidant alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) has been shown to affect a variety of biological processes associated with oxidative stress including cancer. ALA and DHLA can effectively induce apoptosis in human colon cancer cells by a prooxidant mechanism that is initiated by an increased uptake of oxidizable substrates into mitochondria.
  • Apoptosis. 2005 Mar; 10(2): 359-68.