Holistic Health Articles and Research Related to Herbal Medicines, Foods and Phytochemicals

Tuesday, 2 January 2018

Food Therapy: The Hetapoprotective Activities of Eggplant and its Bioactive Total Phenolics and Flavonoids

Eggplant, bioactive phytochemicals were found to process hetapoprotective activity against formation of liver diseases, some scientists suggested.

Eggplant with deeply purple color, is a species of S. melongena, belongs to the family Solanaceae, native to India.

Liver diseases are groups of liver disorders, including cirrhosis, or scarring of the liver. inflammation (hepatitis) from infectious (hepatitis B, hepatitis C) or non-infectious causes (chemical or autoimmune hepatitis) tumors and liver cancer.

According to statistic, among population of aged 45–64 years, the death rates of chronic liver disease and cirrhosis in the United States increased by 31% (from 20.1 per 100,000 to 26.4) from 2000 to 2015.

Eggplant, bioactive total phenolic and flavonoid content in reduced risk and treatment of liver diseases were found to associate to numbers of implication through various mechanisms.

According to the evaluation of 25 male Wistar rats randomly divided into five groups, and adapted for 7 days before the experimental study, including negative and positive groups fed with aquadest, Group III−V given Solanum melongena fruit infusion containing 1.125 grams, 2.25 grams and 4.5 grams orally for 9 days, respectively, suggested that at day 11 after the 9th day injection of 8 mL/kgBW of 10% CCl4 in paraffin carried out to all rats, except for the negative group,

treatment of Solanum melongena fruit infusion groups display a significant improvement of reduced hepatocyte necrosis in compared to positive group.

Surprisingly, under the observation of Mann-Whitney test, Solanum melongena fruit infusion did not express a linear dependent to the doses injection through the comparison to the effect in negative group, group III, and group V (p<0.05), as well as insignificant difference was found between the positive group and group IV (p>0.05).

Liver examination also suggested that liver cells death were found more common in the positive group of 37.26% in compared to negative group with the fewest necrotic hepatocyte of 1.27%.

In reactive oxygen species perspective, application of CCl4 stimulated by cytochrome p450 with function involved toxic substances metabolism to initiate forming of free radicals trichloromethyl radical (CCl3 -) in binding with lipid to induce lipid peroxidation in facilitated liver tissue damage.

Moreover, in reaction with oxygen in the liver tissue, CCl4 also precipitated the production of trichloromethylperoxy radical (CCl3 O2 -) to cause necrotic hepatocyte in the periportal space of the liver.

Additional analysis also discovered that Solanum melongena fruit infusion demonstrated a significant antioxidant activities in decreased and prevented the formation of free radical oxidation, through the expression of flavonoids in inhibition of CCl3 in reaction with oxygen to induce covalent bonds with fat.

After taking into account of other con founders, Dr. Nabhan Komara. the lead author said, "Solanum melongena fruit infusion has hepatoprotective effects against acute hepatitis in rat model histopathologically".

Interestingly, in the evaluated total phenolic and flavonoid antioxidant activity and hepatoprotection against cytotoxicity of tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BuOOH) in human hepatoma cell lines HepG2, scientists showed that pretreatment of HepG2 cells with 50 and 100 μg/mL of chemical compounds significantly increased expressions of t-BuOOH-exposed HepG2 cells to induced tumor cell apoptosis by 14.49 ± 1.14% to 44.95 ± 2.72%. without harming to the nearby healthy cells.

According to the experiment, application of total phenolic and flavonoid not only increased antioxidant activities in protect liver cell against damage caused by over facilitation of tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BuOOH) in induction of ROS but also exhibited free radical cytotoxic effect to initiated cell death in HepG2 cell lines.

Further more, the hepatoprotective activities on t-BuOOH-induced toxicity was attributed to total phenolic/flavonoid content at both 50 and 100 lg/mL and antioxidant activities at both 50 lg/mL and 100 lg/mL observed by two most common radical scavenging assays, namely, 2,2′-azino-bis-3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulphonic acid (ABTS) and 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical.

Tert-Butyl hydroperoxide (tBuOOH) is an organic compound used widely as a peroxide in a variety of oxidation processes.

Taken together, there is no doubt that eggplant and its btoactive total phenolic and flavonoid may have therapeutic effect in protected liver against infectious and non infectious agents and irregular growth causes of benign and malignant cancers through over expression of antioxidant activities in protected healthy cells and induction of ROS cytotoxicity to tumor cells.

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(1) Antioxidant and hepatoprotective activities of five eggplant varieties by Akanitapichat P1, Phraibung K, Nuchklang K, Prompitakkul S.(PubMed)
(2) Hepatoprotective Effect of Solanum melongena/Eggplant against Acute Hepatitis by Nabhan Komara, Herri S. Sastramihardja, Afiati Afiati(Althea medical Journal)

Monday, 1 January 2018

Food Therapy: Green Tea Bioactive Polyphenols in Inhibited β-amyloid Accumulation in Neuro Degeneration

Kyle J. Norton

Green tea may have a potential and therapeutic effect in protected neurons of the brain against deposit of β-amyloid in initiated neuro degenerative diseases, some researchers postulated.

β-amyloid are plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer patients derived from the amyloid precursor protein (APP) with function in binding to other proteins on the surface of cells.

Green tea, a precious drink processes numbers of health benefit known to almost everyone in Asia and Western world. However, as yin in nature herbal medicine or food, long term injection of large amounts may obstruct the balance of yin-yang, induced "yin excessive syndrome" or "yang vacuity syndrome" including weaken immunity and painful case of GERD,... according to traditional Chinese medicine's Yin-Yang theory.

The differentiation of green tea activities in risk of plagues deposit in certain parts of the brain to induce development and neuropathogenesis of dementia was found to associate to numbers of implication through several mechanisms.

In the study to clarify the effect of green tea Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) in inhibited activities of nitrosative as well as oxidative stress in induction of Abeta-cause of damages in neurons and glial cells surround neurons, researchers at the Daegu Haany University found that application of the phytophenols exerts a significant interference in ameliorated the elevation of Abeta-induced by oxidative and/or nitrosative to facilitate cell death through its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

Further analysis found that green tea bioactive compound reduced activities of Abeta injection in induction of nitrosative stress on BV2 cells caused by increased expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in production of nitric oxide (NO) and peroxynitrite, in elevated cytotoxicity to precipitate apoptosis, though inhibited reactive nitrogen species act together with reactive oxygen species to establish chain reaction in damage to BV2 cells.

In cellular metabolism, pretreatment of green tea EGCG also demonstrated a strong antioxidant properties in induction of neuroprotective effect by fortified cellular GSH over expression through elevated mRNA expression of galuatehe eva-glutamylcysteine ligase (GCL) with functions involved production of cellular antioxidant glutathione (GSH).

Additionally, the examine the inhibitory effect of l-theanine, a component of green tea (Camellia sinensis), on Abeta(1-42) with oral treatment of l-theanine (2 and 4 mg/kg) for 5 weeks in the drinking water of mice, followed by injection of Abeta(1-42) (2 microg/mouse, icv), suggested that green tea bioactive l-theanine component exerts a significantly attenuated Abeta(1-42) levels induced memory impairment by precipitated neuronal cell death in the cortex and hippocampus of the brain.

Moreover, l-theanine also inhibited Abeta(1-42)-induced extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and activity of nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) in initiated cellular apoptosis caused by reactive nitrogen species hyper activities.

Further more, the bioactive l-theanine also significantly reduced oxidative protein and lipid damage and elevated glutathione levels in the brain, thus reducing macromolecular oxidative damage in improved memory.

Additional study of green tea effect in attenuated accumulation of β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide plaques is a major pathogenic event in Alzheimer's disease (AD) opinionated that in the wild type amyloid precursor protein (APP) transfected (N2a/APP695) cell line, Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a highly active catechin found in green tea, significantly reinforce the activity of nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ), a regulator of adipocyte differentiation by promoting its mRNA and protein expressions in N2a/APP695 cells, thus attenuated Aβ generation in N2a/APP695 cells in induction of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Intriguingly, the efficacy of Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) in inhibited β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide plaques accumulation was found to be attributed by its antioxidant activity in decreased the expression of pro-apoptotic proteins (Bax, caspase-3) activated by Aβ insults, the activity of the anti-inflammatory agent NF-κB triggered by β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide and inhibited the oxidative stress by decreasing the levels of ROS and MDA and increased the expression of antioxidant enzyme MnSOD.

These results suggest that EGCG may have preventive and/or therapeutic potential to prevent accumulated β-amyloid in initiated neuro degenerative patients by increasing cellular antioxidant defense capacity in inhibited Abeta-mediated oxidative and/or nitrosative stress to induce cell death. Intake of green tea extract should be taken with great care, as overdoses have been reported to cause liver toxicity.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrients, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

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(*) Neuroprotective effect of epigallocatechin-3-gallate against beta-amyloid-induced oxidative and nitrosative cell death via augmentation of antioxidant defense capacity by Kim CY1, Lee C, Park GH, Jang JH.(PubMed)
(*) l-Theanine, an amino acid in green tea, attenuates beta-amyloid-induced cognitive dysfunction and neurotoxicity: reduction in oxidative damage and inactivation of ERK/p38 kinase and NF-kappaB pathways by Kim TI1, Lee YK, Park SG, Choi IS, Ban JO, Park HK, Nam SY, Yun YW, Han SB, Oh KW, Hong JT.(PubMed)
(*) Epigallocatechin Gallate Attenuates β-Amyloid Generation and Oxidative Stress Involvement of PPARγ in N2a/APP695 Cells by Zhang ZX1, Li YB2, Zhao RP3.(PubMed)
(1) Green tea epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) reduces beta-amyloid mediated cognitive impairment and modulates tau pathology in Alzheimer transgenic mice by Rezai-Zadeh K1, Arendash GW, Hou H, Fernandez F, Jensen M, Runfeldt M, Shytle RD, Tan J.(PubMed)

Herbal Therapy: Green Tea and Its' Polyphenols (GTPs) in Attenuated Risk, Progression and Treatment of Skin Cancer

Green tea may have a strong and positive effect in reduced risk and treatment of skin cancer, some scientists suggested.

Green tea, a precious drink processes numbers of health benefit known to almost everyone in Asia and Western world. However, as yin in nature herbal medicine or food, long term injection of large amounts may obstruct the balance of yin-yang, induced "yin excessive syndrome" or "yang vacuity syndrome" including weaken immunity and painful case of GERD,... according to traditional Chinese medicine's Yin-Yang theory.

Skin cancer is medical condition characterized by irregular cell growth in the issues of skin. At the later stage, the cancerous cell may travel a distance away to invade other healthy tissues and organs.

According to statistic, approximately, 87,110 new cases of invasive melanoma are diagnosed in the U.S every years

The evaluation of green tea effect in overexposure to environmental solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation (290-400 nm) which has been found to increase risk of the development of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers in mice model showed that oral administration of green tea pylophenols (GTPs) in drinking water or the topical application of EGCG prevents UVB-induced skin tumor development in tested subjects.

Particularly, (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), the major and most photoprotective polyphenolic component of green tea also exhibited a protective activity against UV in induction of skin cancer, through induction of immunoregulatory cytokine interleukin (IL) 12 in differentiation of naive T cells into Th1 cells and acted as T cell-stimulating factor in stimulate the growth and function of T cells.

Moreover, interleukin (IL) 12 also demonstrated a significant effect as an antagonist against immunosuppression induced by solar/ultraviolet (UV) radiation by restoring immune responses and also stimulating DNA repair.

Further analysis also indicated that green tea (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) also inhibited UV in induction of skin tumors; angiogenetic effect in stimulated production of new blood vessels to

provide nutrients and oxygen for cancer cells proliferation and survivals and initiated cytotoxic T lymphocyte cells in induced cancer and infectious and damage cells apoptosis.

Interestingly, additional study of green tea polyphenols (GTPs) in prevention of UVB irradiated (80 mJ/cm(2)) 3 times each week for 24 wk in induced skin cancer in mice divided in to group consumed water and group fed with water containing 2 g/L GTPs, showed that group treated with GTPs displayed a significant reduced UVB-induced tumor incidence by 35%, tumor multiplicity by 63%, and tumor growth by 55% in compared to non treatment group.

Group treated with GTPs+UVB also demonstrated a reduced expression of the matrix metalloproteinases (MMP)-2 and MMP-9, which are activator associated with progression from benign to advanced cancer and enhanced expression of specific endogenous tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs), tissues inhibitor of MMP in skin tumors in compared to mice treated with UVB alone.

Further more, GTPs+UVB group also reduced expressions of CD31 and vascular endothelial growth factor, in activated development of new blood vessel to nourish skin tumor cells proliferation and site expansion and inhibited expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen, a key factor in DNA replication and cell cycle regulation in skin cancer in compared to UVB group.

More importantly, mice treated with GTPs+UVB group also showed more cytotoxic CD8(+) T cells in the tumors in compared to UVB group by exhibited greater activation of caspase-3 epression in induced apoptosis of the tumor cells.

The information findings suggested a potential and therapeutic effect of green tea and its bioactive polyphenols (GTPs) in attenuated risk, progression and treatment of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrients, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) Green Tea Prevents Skin Cancer by Two Mechanisms by Navid Bouzari, Yvonne Romagosa, Robert S. Kirsner(PubMed)
(2) Green tea and skin cancer: photoimmunology, angiogenesis and DNA repair by Katiyar S1, Elmets CA, Katiyar SK.(PubMed)
(3) Orally administered green tea polyphenols prevent ultraviolet radiation-induced skin cancer in mice through activation of cytotoxic T cells and inhibition of angiogenesis in tumors by Mantena SK1, Meeran SM, Elmets CA, Katiyar SK.(PubMed)

Sunday, 31 December 2017

Alternative Therapy: Yoga In Reduced Symptoms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Kyle J. Norton

Yoga therapy may have a profound effect in reduced risk and treatment of symptoms of Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a Japanese study suggested.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease is a condition characterized by long term inflammation of the gut, including Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

Yoga, the ancient practical technique for harmonized external and internal body well being, through breath control, meditation, bodily movement and gesture..... has been best known for people in Western world and some parts in Asia due to health benefits reported by various respectable institutes' research and supported by health advocates.

In a study of total of 100 IBD patients [ulcerative colitis (UC) n = 60 and Crohn's disease (CD) n = 40] during the clinical remission phase of disease, allocated randomly to either the yoga group underwent an 8-week yoga intervention (physical postures, pranayama, and meditation) 1- hour/day in addition to standard medical therapy (UC, n = 30; CD, n = 20) or the control group (UC, n = 30; CD n = 20), with standard medical therapy alone in the same period, researchers indicated that after the periods of intervention, yoga group expressed fewer arthralgia in UC patients and intestinal colic pain also reduced substantially in yoga group in compared to control.

In deed, yoga practice with breathing and meditation was found to demonstrate a significant effect in induction of relaxation and calmness of central nervous system, thus reducing acute and chronic psychological stress in induced production of catecholamines, glucagon, growth hormones, causing direct implication of inflammatory process in initiated chronic swelling and pain.

Further analysis also discovered, yoga group showed a significant improvement of state and trait anxiety levels in patients with UC which can also be attributed to yoga effect in bring back the presence of self consciousness by dealing the psychological symptoms such as anxiety and depression caused by chronic stress in a positive way or letting them go.

Based on these results, Sharma P, the led author said, "simplified yoga-based regimen is a safe and effective complementary clinical treatment modality for patients with inflammatory bowel disease during the clinical remission phase".

In children study to determine the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in inflammatory bowel disease population at a single pediatric center, through a survey distributed electronically and given out to patients in the clinic, researchers found that 16.3% of parents returned survey indicated that yoga/meditation may be helpful in treating their children inflammatory bowel disease.

After taking in account to other cofounders, Ceballos C, the led author said, "Families are supportive of CAM both at the time of diagnosis and as an ongoing component of their child's treatment".

Interestingly, in the study to evaluated mind-body complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) modalities (e.g., relaxation or meditation) for symptom management in adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), researchers illustrated that in 67 adolescents with IBD ages 12-19 selected from a children's hospital completed a questionnaire, scientists indicated that
40% of returned survey used yoga relaxation from once/day to once/week for symptom management. In multivariate analyses, females were more likely to use relaxation and adolescents with more severe disease were more willing to consider using relaxation in the future.

Some researchers suggested that yoga relaxation based intervention could improve the quality of life in patients with IBD and reduce expression inflammatory cytokines through protein NF-κB in response to stress in precipitated inflammatory symptoms.

Taking altogether, Yoga may be considered as adjunct therapy combined with standard treatment for patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrients, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) Effect of Yoga-Based Intervention in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Sharma P1, Poojary G2, Dwivedi SN3, Deepak KK4.(PubMed)
(2) Complementary and alternative medicine use at a single pediatric inflammatory bowel disease center by Ceballos C1, Bao R, Dunkin D, Song Y, Li XM, Benkov K.(PubMed)
(3) Mind-body complementary alternative medicine use and quality of life in adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease by Cotton S1, Humenay Roberts Y, Tsevat J, Britto MT, Succop P, McGrady ME, Yi MS.(PubMed)

Food Therapy: Eggplant In Attenuated Risk and Treatment of Melanoma

Eggplant may have a therapeutic and positive effect in reduced risk and treatment of melanoma, some scientists suggested.

Eggplant is a species of S. melongena with deeply purple color, belongings to the family Solanaceae and native to India, cultivated in southern and eastern Asia since prehistory.

Melanoma cancer is medical condition characterized by irregular cell growth in the issues of skin. At the later stage, the cancerous cell may travel a distance away to invade other healthy tissues and organs.

According to statistic, approximately 87,110 new cases of invasive melanoma caner will be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2017.

The investigated the glycoalkaloids isolated from numerous Solanaceous plants, including eggplant in risk of melanoma, suggested that eggplant glycoalkaloids derivatives α-solamargine and α-solasonine demonstrated a significant effect in inhibition of cancer cells proliferation, in both vitro and vivo.

Further analysis of the chemistry and structure-activity also suggested that both α-solamargine and α-solasonine exert a strong antioxidant effect in increased cancer cell apoptosis and decrease tumor formation through expression of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) in cancer cellular processes and NF-kappaB cascades in enhanced T-cell development, maturation, and proliferation, in animal models.

Interestingly, in melanoma cell lines, application of glycoalkaloid solamargine showed a complete
inhibition of the growth of metastatic and primary melanoma cell lines WM239 and WM115 with minimum effect on normal and benign WM35 melanoma cells through reduced blood supplies in induced necrosis by rapid induction of lysosomal membrane permeabilization in controls the passage to allow intracellular or intraorganellar antigens into and out of lysosomes.

Moreover, the action of glycoalkaloid solamargine in exhibition of cancer cell apoptosis was found to attribute to the physiological processes activated by cathepsin B activity in triggering the extrinsic mitochondrial death pathway through releasing cytochrome c, a hemeprotein found loosely in the inner membrane of the mitochondrion and tumor necrosis factor receptor 1(TNFR1) in expression of the transcription factor NF-κB in mediated apoptosis.

In the intrinsic apoptosis pathway, Solamargine disrupted the function of hILP/XIAP in blocking cancer cells apoptosis through an interaction with TRAF protein activated by mediating activation of transcription factors of the NF-κB, thus improving caspase-3 cleavage in the execution-phase of cell apoptosis, up regulating Bcl-xL, and Bcl2 in regulated apoptosis, cell cycle arrest and cell cycle entry and suppressing apoptotic peptidase activating factor 1 Apaf-1 and Bax family in expression of both anti- or pro-apoptotic regulation.

Dr. Al Sinani SS, the lead author, after taking into account of other con founders said, " Solamargine showed high efficacy in vitro particularly against the vertical growth phase melanoma cells" and "is a promising anti-malignant melanoma drug".

More profoundly, in the researching of chemically isolate and explore an antimelanogenesis inducer in extracts of Solanum melongena L. "Usukawamarunasu" eggplant, the identified dioscin ([25R]-Spirost-5-en-3β-yl) 2-O-(6-deoxy-α-L-mannopyranosyl) - 4-O-(6-deoxy-α-L-mannopyranosyl)-β-D-glucopyranoside] displayed an overwhelming effect in inhibition of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH)-induced melanogenesis in B16 murine melanoma cells.

According to the immunoblot analysis, dioscin prevented B16 murine melanoma cells proliferation was found to attribute to ameliorate the expression of tyrosinase in intracellular production of melanin, tyrosinase-related protein-1 (TRP-1), and TRP-2 which were significantly correlate to tumor cell stage and grade and metastasis-free survival (DMFS), overall survival.

Additionally, the suppression of tyrosinase, TRP-1, and TRP-2 expression also attenuated
alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in production of melanogenesis in B16 cells.

Further differentiation also indicated that, the identified chemicals also exerted anti melanoma cells preoperative effect through mediating pro-survival functions microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF), through inhibition of Cyclic AMP-responsive element-binding protein (CREB) in express a cassette of regeneration-associated genes with alternated DNA transcription caused by phosphorylation in expression of α-MSH-induced melanogenesis in B16 cells.

Taking altogether, there is no doubt that Eggplant with abundant phytochemicals may have a therapeutic effect in reduced risk and treatment of melanoma. People with high risk of melanoma are recommended to add some portions of eggplant into their diet for risk prevention.

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(1) Chemistry and anticarcinogenic mechanisms of glycoalkaloids produced by eggplants, potatoes, and tomatoes by Friedman M1.(PubMed)
(2) Dioscin Derived from Solanum melongena L. "Usukawamarunasu" Attenuates α-MSH-Induced Melanogenesis in B16 Murine Melanoma Cells via Downregulation of Phospho-CREB and MITF by Nishina A1, Ebina K1, Ukiya M1, Fukatsu M1, Koketsu M2, Ninomiya M2, Sato D3, Kimura H4.(PubMed)
(3) Solamargine triggers cellular necrosis selectively in different types of human melanoma cancercells through extrinsic lysosomal mitochondrial death pathway by Al Sinani SS1, Eltayeb EA1, Coomber BL2, Adham SA1.(PubMed)

Saturday, 30 December 2017

Alternative Therapy: Yoga In Reduced Symptoms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Kyle J. Norton

After taking in account to other cofounders, Ceballos C, the led author said, "Families are supportive of CAM both at the time of diagnosis and as an ongoing component of their child's treatment".

Taking altogether, Yoga may be considered as adjunct therapy combined with standard treatment for patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

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Herbal Therapy: Green Tea in Protection Against Chronological and Photo Aging

Although no one can avoid aging, the process can be slow down. Green tea may have a potential and positive effect in delay the process through its anti aging phytochemicals, some scientists suggested.

Green tea, a precious drink processes numbers of health benefit known to almost everyone in Asia and Western world. However, as yin in nature herbal medicine or food, long term injection of large amounts may obstruct the balance of yin-yang, induced "yin excessive syndrome" or "yang vacuity syndrome" including weaken immunity and painful case of GERD,... according to traditional Chinese medicine's Yin-Yang theory.

The investigation of green tea properties in anti aging effect was found to associate many different mechanisms involved expression of some major polyphenols.

According to the investigation of the experiment of 45 male mice model divided into 5 groups induced aging through injection of d-galactose in the period of 8 weeks in compared to positive control fed with Vitamin C (VitC), mice treated with green tea, bioactive Epigallocatechin gallate(EGCG) once a day by subcutaneously inject after 5h of injecting d-galactose exerted a antioxidant effect in improved over all skin condition and whole structure of skin in compared to positive control at the end of study.

Further analysis also found that the chemical constituents of green tea inhibited the over production of osidative stress caused by injection of d-galactose through neutralized ROS insults to maintain good dermal health.

Interestingly, in compared to control, green tea EGCG also increased expression of epidermal growth factor in stimulated skin growth at the cellular level and increase collagen production in protect skin against aging senility.

Moreover, the evaluated characteristics of human skin and how photo-aging (extrinsic aging) occur via the impact of ROS production by cascade signaling pathways indicated that administration of green tea extracts (GTEs) protects the affect of aging skin through inhibited cutaneous erythema induced of redness of the skin, thickening of the epidermis involved over expression of CK5/6 in promoted cutaneous neoplasms, a new and abnormal growth of skin tissue and cytokeratin(CK16) in induction of expression in abnormal skin epithelial patterns.

In deed, the expression green tea also showed a strong implication in reduced matrix metalloproteinases 2-9 (MMP-2, MMP-9) activities in elevated skin changes and depletion of CD1a(+) LCs in induction of skin inflammation, caused by UVR application

In chronological (intrinsic) aging, administration of polyphenols, which are secondary plant metabolites also found to protect against skin aging through exhibition of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects, according to the existing literature, linking skin aging and the ability of polyphenols as regulatory elements with function in maintained skin homeostasis.

Dr. Davinelli S, said at end of study, "Polyphenols exert their influence mostly through their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects, thereby abrogating collagen degradation and/or increasing procollagen synthesis".

Finally, in the 33 healthy Asian subjects, all men enrolled after consent in a placebo-controlled comparative study with a split face design with one group applied multiple emulsions with green tea and the second group applied multiple emulsions with lotus extract, while a third group applied a multiple emulsion with a combination of both extracts, once daily over the 60-day treatment researchers found that all groups show a significant improvement on skin roughness (SEr), scaliness (SEsc), smoothness (SEsm), and wrinkling (SEw). In compared to other 2 groups, green tea and lotus combined in multiple emulsions brought a superior synergistic anti-aging effect..

Dr. Mahmood T, the lead author, after taking into account of other con founders, said, "diverse anti-oxidant constituents in both plants have a potential influence on skin surface parameters, thus indicating these plants as the future of new anti-agingproducts".

Taken together, green tea bioactive polyphenols may be considered as a functional food used as topical or oral injection to delay skin aging process through over expression antioxidant in improved in both chronological (intrinsic) and photo-aging (extrinsic) aging.

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(1) Combined topical application of lotus and green tea improves facial skin surface parameters by Mahmood T1, Akhtar N.(PubMed)
(2) Protective effects of green tea extracts on photoaging and photommunosuppression by Li YH1, Wu Y, Wei HC, Xu YY, Jia LL, Chen J, Yang XS, Dong GH, Gao XH, Chen HD.(PubMed)
(3) Anti-skin-aging effect of epigallocatechin gallate by regulating epidermal growth factor receptor pathway on aging mouse model induced by d-Galactose by Chen J1, Li Y2, Zhu Q1, Li T1, Lu H1, Wei N2, Huang Y1, Shi R2, Ma X3, Wang X4, Sheng J5.(PubMed)
(4) Cytoprotective Polyphenols Against Chronological Skin Aging and Cutaneous Photodamage by
Davinelli S, et al. Curr Pharm Des. 2017(PMC)