Chinese medicine pharmacology counseling: green tea extract can effectively curb cancer

In order to help the examinees better learn the relevant knowledge of the examination of Chinese medicine scholars / pharmacists / pharmacists in charge, and fully understand the key points of the examination of Chinese medicine scholars / pharmacists / pharmacists in charge, the editor specially summarizes the examination guidance materials of Chinese medicine scholars / pharmacists / pharmacists in charge, I hope it can help you! Green tea extract can destroy the process of "actin remodeling", make cancer cells adhere to each other, hinder their movement, and accelerate the aging of cancer cells US scientists said Friday that they have confirmed that green tea extract can effectively inhibit the development of cancer without damaging healthy cells through research on bladder cancer The team, led by Chinese American scientists, believes that green tea extract may be an effective anticancer drug The results were published the same day in the journal Clinical Cancer Research Rao Jianyu, an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who led the study, said their results "improved understanding of the mechanism of action of green tea extracts." If people understand the mechanism of green tea extract to inhibit tumor, they can determine which type of cancer patients can benefit from green tea extract In the paper, the researchers wrote that the development of cancer is closely related to the diffusion and movement of cancer cells If cancer cells want to move, they must start a cell process called "actin remodeling" Once this process is activated, cancer cells can invade healthy tissue, causing the tumor to spread Green tea extract can destroy the process of actin remodeling, make cancer cells adhere to each other, hinder their movement, and accelerate the aging of cancer cells Rao Jianyu said that cancer cells are "aggressive", while green tea extract breaks its "aggressive" path, limits cancer cells, makes them "localized", and makes cancer treatment and prognosis relatively simple Previously, some research results have revealed that green tea extract has an effect on many cancers, including bladder cancer, which can cause premature apoptosis of cancer cells and block the blood supply of tumor tissue Rao Jianyu told Xinhua that some members of his team are verifying the effect of green tea extract on other cancers such as gastric cancer Unlike similar studies, he said, the green tea extract they used was very similar in composition to the green tea they drank, which means that regular drinking of green tea may have some anti-cancer effect, at least to enhance the body's defense against cancer However, the researchers also believe that at present they have only tested a limited number of bladder cancer cell lines, and further research is needed to reveal the anti-cancer mechanism of green tea Other scientists commented on the same day that the research further confirmed the potential of green tea in the prevention and treatment of cancer Especially in bladder cancer treatment, new results will help to find bladder cancer susceptible patients and reduce the incidence rate.