PTGS2 and leukemia: Furthermore, it was demonstrated by Takada and colleagues [89] that I3C (Table 1) blocks the expression of NFKB1-regulated prometastatic, proproliferation, and antiapoptotic gene products (i.e., AKT1, BCL2, BIRC2, BIRC5, CCND1, MMP9, PTGS2, TNF, and XIAP) in myeloid and leukemia cells.