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Some vegetables are known to have the benefit of protection against disease, for example broccoli. This turns green vegetables contain compounds that have the potential to be developed as a leukemia drug.
Bone marrow in the human body produces three types of blood cells, including white blood cells that serve as the immune system against infection. Red blood cells that carries oxygen to the body. Platelet small part of blood cells that help blood clotting.
Leukemia occurs when cancer attacks white blood cells. The disease is characterized by symptoms such as susceptible to disease, infection, anemia, bleeding, bone and joint pain, abdominal pain, swollen lymph glands, and difficulty breathing.
The researchers who have studied concentrated compounds in broccoli and other vegetables claimed that the compound may be able to protect someone from leukemia. According to laboratory tests, certain compounds in broccoli can reduce the number of cells in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
"Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia is a type of white blood cell cancer that commonly occurs in children. Cure rate at this level can reach 80 percent, but some children may not respond to treatment and require alternative treatment," said Daniel Lacorazza, the study's authors and a assistant professor of pathology and immunology at Baylor College of Medicine.
Lacorazza colleagues and other researchers focused to purify sulforaphane, a natural compound found in broccoli and is believed to have therapeutic properties and prevention of solid tumors. The researchers, led by Koramit Suppipat, apply compound on human leukemia cells that have been incubated.
The cancer cells were killed after getting treatment compound sulforaphane, while healthy cells obtained from healthy donors was not affected at all. This study has also been tested on mice and showed similar results.
"Sulforaphane is a natural product, but what is used in this study is a purified, concentrated form. So eat broccoli as ever, probably will not have the same effect as what you see in the lab," said Lacorazza, as quoted from health.india, Monday (17/12/2012).
The expectation, based on the results of this study, alternative medicine can be created later against leukemia by using broccoli that may be cheaper than leukemia drugs that already exist. The results were published in the journal Public Library of Science ONE.
Bone marrow in the human body produces three types of blood cells, including white blood cells that serve as the immune system against infection. Red blood cells that carries oxygen to the body. Platelet small part of blood cells that help blood clotting.
Leukemia occurs when cancer attacks white blood cells. The disease is characterized by symptoms such as susceptible to disease, infection, anemia, bleeding, bone and joint pain, abdominal pain, swollen lymph glands, and difficulty breathing.
The researchers who have studied concentrated compounds in broccoli and other vegetables claimed that the compound may be able to protect someone from leukemia. According to laboratory tests, certain compounds in broccoli can reduce the number of cells in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
"Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia is a type of white blood cell cancer that commonly occurs in children. Cure rate at this level can reach 80 percent, but some children may not respond to treatment and require alternative treatment," said Daniel Lacorazza, the study's authors and a assistant professor of pathology and immunology at Baylor College of Medicine.
Lacorazza colleagues and other researchers focused to purify sulforaphane, a natural compound found in broccoli and is believed to have therapeutic properties and prevention of solid tumors. The researchers, led by Koramit Suppipat, apply compound on human leukemia cells that have been incubated.
The cancer cells were killed after getting treatment compound sulforaphane, while healthy cells obtained from healthy donors was not affected at all. This study has also been tested on mice and showed similar results.
"Sulforaphane is a natural product, but what is used in this study is a purified, concentrated form. So eat broccoli as ever, probably will not have the same effect as what you see in the lab," said Lacorazza, as quoted from health.india, Monday (17/12/2012).
The expectation, based on the results of this study, alternative medicine can be created later against leukemia by using broccoli that may be cheaper than leukemia drugs that already exist. The results were published in the journal Public Library of Science ONE.
Source: Health.india
