Thursday, September 8, 2011
Regular consumption of broccoli could be overcome cancer
Broccoli (Brassica oleracea L. Italica Group) is a vegetable belonging to the tribe of cabbage or Brassicaceae. Broccoli comes from the Mediterranean region and has been cultivated since the days of Ancient Greece. These vegetables into Indonesia not long ago (around 1970) and is now quite popular as a food ingredient.
The edible parts of broccoli are green flower heads arranged a meeting like branches with a thick trunk. Most of these flower heads surrounded by foliage. Most similar to broccoli cauliflower, but broccoli is green, while the white cauliflower.
Based on the latest news, experts in Britain have managed to identify the content of anticancer substances in broccoli and explain the mechanisms of these substances interact with genes responsible for cancer development.
As published in the journal BioMed Central's latest issue of Molecular Cancer, experts describe how the anticancer substance called sulforaphane works. Simply put, sulforaphane neutralize a type of gene called PTEN. The gene is involved in the formation of prostate cancer cells.
Under normal conditions, PTEN will inhibit cancer development. However, in certain cells, these genes are actually disappeared and was later going to trigger the growth of cancer.
The presence of sulforaphane seems able to reduce the influence of cells that PTEN loss and may prevent the cancer to grow and develop.
This conclusion is obtained after scientists at the Institute of Food Research Norwich Research Park conducted a series of studies. Experts using prostate tissue from the male body 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.
The edible parts of broccoli are green flower heads arranged a meeting like branches with a thick trunk. Most of these flower heads surrounded by foliage. Most similar to broccoli cauliflower, but broccoli is green, while the white cauliflower.
Based on the latest news, experts in Britain have managed to identify the content of anticancer substances in broccoli and explain the mechanisms of these substances interact with genes responsible for cancer development.
As published in the journal BioMed Central's latest issue of Molecular Cancer, experts describe how the anticancer substance called sulforaphane works. Simply put, sulforaphane neutralize a type of gene called PTEN. The gene is involved in the formation of prostate cancer cells.
Under normal conditions, PTEN will inhibit cancer development. However, in certain cells, these genes are actually disappeared and was later going to trigger the growth of cancer.
The presence of sulforaphane seems able to reduce the influence of cells that PTEN loss and may prevent the cancer to grow and develop.
This conclusion is obtained after scientists at the Institute of Food Research Norwich Research Park conducted a series of studies. Experts using prostate tissue from the male body 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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