LONDON, KOMPAS.com - The nickname of broccoli as a superfood is not new. Numerous studies have shown that vegetables this one does have a kind of a natural ingredient that can fight cancer cells.
Based on the latest news, experts in Britain have managed to identify and explain the content of the anticancer mechanism of these substances interact with the genes responsible for cancer development.
As published in the journal Molecular Cancer BioMed Central's latest issue, the experts describe how the anticancer substance called sulforaphane works. Simply put, sulforaphane neutralize similar gene called PTEN. The gene is involved in the formation of prostate cancer cells.
Under normal conditions, PTEN would inhibit cancer development. However, in certain cells, this gene actually disappears and is then going to trigger the growth of cancer.
The presence of sulforaphane seems able to reduce the influence of cells that PTEN loss and can prevent the cancer to grow and develop.
This conclusion is obtained after scientists at the Institute of Food Research Norwich Research Park to do a series of studies. The experts using prostate tissue from the male and the cancer cells from rats. This finding may be new hope for the creation of a therapy for prostate cancer that strikes about 36,000 men each year.
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Monday 30 January 2012
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