Successful scorpion venom to treat cancer by Cuban professors
Cuban scientists intensified medical research to develop the traditional ingredients of scorpion venom as an anti-cancer drug. Similarly prologue Garit article sourced from 7 April 2010. Sources said the Ministry of Health and Members of Cuba expert USA invited researchers and entrepreneurs to develop a drug that is believed to treat late-stage cancer.In a news conference in Havana Cuba, Jose Fraga Doctor of Pharmacy and Biology Laboratoriom Cuba, revealing a blue scorpion venom can inhibit the growth of cancer cells. Doctors also have registered Fraga Cuban traditional medicine known as the Escozul for international sales. Recent research on the 8 thousand cancer patients showed positive results.
Scorpion venom is harmless to humans and does not cause side effects when administered orally. Traditional anti-pain drugs that actually have been used extensively by the Cuban people, but it was first developed in the 1990s in the province of Guantanamo. Effektifitas drug from scorpion venom is increasingly improving academic studies on scorpions.
Brazilian authorities also invites foreign researchers to work with Cuba to develop anti-cancer drugs. 1998 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviewed and approved the distribution of the three drugs can be made from the venom of snakes, scorpions and cone shells, which aggrostatin to treat angina, high blood pressure Captopril, conotoxin for spinal anesthesia, and Chlorotoxin for the treatment of brain tumors.
Why could Scorpions into medicine? It is said there is an Indian shepherd who happened to see a scorpion floating in the swirling water. He decided to help out by holding the scorpion scorpion that stung him jarinya.Tetapi.
The man was still trying to pull out the scorpion out of the water, but the beast was again stung him. A passerby who saw the incident and banned Indians approaching it saved the scorpion that kept stinging people trying to save him.
But the Indians say, "Naturally the scorpion sting. Naturally I also love. Why do I have to release my natural instinct to love because of the scorpion sting me? "Scorpion venom it can be used as a cleanser tumor. The researchers used a synthetic material that is radioactive iodine carrier to brain tumor cells are still left behind after surgery.
This technique has been tested on 18 patients and medical experiments are still being conducted. Interim results showed that peruses this treatment acceptable and effective body. The analysis shows that the nature of the active radio will disappear after 24 hours of overall substance injected. Radiation is also working around the surgical wound alone so as not to damage brain cells healthy.
And toxins can not always harmful. Mechanism of action and toxins could be used for medical purposes. Among them for painkillers, blood thinners, muscle tension relief, anticancer, antimicrobial, anticonvulsant and even studied for anti-HIV.
Utilization and toxins that could be presented by prof. P. Gopalakrishnakone PhD. DSc from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore in the 2nd National Symposium "Recent Advances in the Management of Trauma and Critical Care Cases" organized Hospital Gatot Subroto Army Center on Saturday (07.19.09) two years ago.
Source: Garit / Cuba
Successful scorpion venom to treat cancer by Cuban professors
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