Apple extract can inhibit cancer
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Last Update: 2010-02-08
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According to a new study by experts from Harbin Medical University, some substances in apple can inhibit cancer cells The results provide a new idea for human anti-cancer and are published in this year's Journal of agricultural and food chemistry Liu Jiaren, Ph.D., School of public health, Harbin Medical University, published a paper entitled "fresh apple can inhibit the proliferation of mammary tumor cells in Prague Dawley rats and induce their apoptosis" in the Journal of agriculture and food chemistry in 2009 This project is the latest achievement of the cooperation between Professor Liu Jiaren, Professor Chen Bingqing and lecturer Dong Hongwei and Professor Liu Ruihai, Department of food science, Cornell University This study shows that the fresh apple extract has antioxidant activity and greatly reduces the incidence and quantity of tumor in the rat breast cancer model Only 57%, 50% and 23% of the rats in the study group had breast cancer when they were given low, medium and high doses of apple extract (equivalent to one, three and six apples per day) Compared with the control group without apple, the incidence of tumor in the control group with apple extract decreased to a certain extent, and there was statistically significant difference In addition, further study of its possible mechanism found that apple extract can inhibit the proliferation of some tumors, cell cycle and apoptosis related protein expression.
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