A team of researchers based at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, USA, found that inhibiting an enzyme known as 11-beta-HSD2 with a licorice extract blocks COX-2 activity in human and mouse colorectal tumor cells, inhibiting their growth and metastasis in experimental models of colorectal cancer.
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