325,636
edits
LOG IN. UPLOAD PICTURES.
The Philippines has Zambo Mart to help propagate the Chavacano Language.
Difference between revisions of "Grape Seed"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→ → Go back HOME to Zamboanga: the Portal to the Philippines.
→News About Grape Seed
| Line 31: | Line 31: | ||
==News About Grape Seed== | ==News About Grape Seed== | ||
'''Grape seeds extract can destroy cancer cells in just one day''' | |||
*Source:http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/77942/Grape-seeds-extract-can-destroy-cancer-cells-in-just-one-day | |||
:By Jo Willey (Health Correspondent) | |||
A SUPPLEMENT made from grape seeds can destroy three-quarters of leukaemia cancer cells within just 24 hours, scientists have found. | |||
The remarkable discovery is being hailed by experts after researchers claimed the finding could pave the way to promising new treatments for the disease, which affects thousands of people in the UK every year. | |||
Laboratory experiments on a commercially-available grape seed extract forced cancer cells to “commit suicide”. | |||
Within 24 hours, 76 per cent of leukaemia cells exposed to the extract died through a process of natural self-destruction called apoptosis, leaving healthy cells unharmed. | |||
Grape seeds contain a number of antioxidant plant chemicals, including resveratrol, the “wonder ingredient” in red wine, which is known to have anti-cancer properties. | |||
Previous research has shown that grapeseed extract has an effect on skin, breast, bowel, lung, stomach and prostate cancer cells in the laboratory. | |||
It can also reduce the size of breast tumours in rats and skin tumours in mice, but it has never before been tested on blood cancer. | |||
Earlier this year scientists claimed that resveratrol – found in the skin of red grapes – is a potent anti-ageing compound. In this latest study, US researchers found that grape seed extract strongly activates a protein called JNK which helps to regulate apoptosis. | |||
When the scientists exposed the leukaemia cells to an agent that inhibits JNK, the grape seed extract effect was cancelled out. | |||
Silencing the gene that makes JNK also blocked the extract’s ability to kill cancer cells. | |||
Professor Xianglin Shi, from the University of Kentucky in Philadelphia, who led the research, said: “These results could have implications for the incorporation of agents such as grape seed extract into prevention or treatment of blood malignancies and possibly other cancers. | |||
“What everyone seeks is an agent that has an effect on cancer cells but leaves normal cells alone, and this shows that grape seed extract fits into this category.” | |||
Prof Shi exposed leukaemia cells to grape extract in a range of different doses. | |||
One of the higher doses produced a marked effect, causing large numbers of the cells to destroy themselves. | |||
Programmed cell suicide is a natural method of getting rid of damaged and potentially dangerous cells. When the mechanism behind apoptosis breaks down, cancerous cells can survive and multiply. | |||
“This is a natural compound that appears to have relatively important properties,” said Prof Shi. | |||
---- | |||
'''Information on Germinating Grape Seeds''' | '''Information on Germinating Grape Seeds''' | ||
*Source:http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/health-benefits-dried-grape-seed-extract-7055.html | *Source:http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/health-benefits-dried-grape-seed-extract-7055.html | ||