“…Certain anticancer agents i.e., polyoxomolybdates-, platonin-or phenethyl isothiocyanate could induce autophagic cell death to enhance chemotherapeutic efficacy, [41][42][43] while others, i.e., suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid, arginine deiminase or timosaponin A-III mediated protective autophagy that antagonized apoptotic cell death. [31][32][33] In this study, we demonstrated that quercetin triggered autophagy in human gastric cancer cells both in vitro and in vivo. Further functional analysis showed that inhibition of autophagy markedly increased quercetin-induced apoptotic cell death, suggesting that quercetin-induced autophagy plays a protective role in gastric cancer cells.…”