After studying the effects of diets with high amounts of Chinese cabbage and turnips - far the most popular vegetables in China - among the six thousand women - American doctors at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, said that these products reduce the risk of cancer in the breast reducing. A similar positive effect was also found in the use of broccoli, cauliflower and normal. Leafy vegetables contain compounds isothiocyanates, so that the body to resist cancer cells. Scientists have found that the apparent advantage of the vegetable consumption was stronger for women with a certain variant of a gene called GSTP1 - this group of study participants use all vegetables lowers the risk of cancer by half. Experts found that GSTP1 - an enzyme that helps to detoxify carcinogenic substances.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Premature babies are at increased risk of death and infertility
Premature birth can have negative consequences for the child, including increased risk of death in children and infertility in the future, scientists say. These conclusions researchers studied 1.2 million people in Norway was born in 1967 and 1988. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. As you know, are premature babies born three weeks before the normal date and are at high risk for problems related to the development in the first years of life. But how does it affect their future life, little is known. The researchers found that the majority of preterm infants probability of poor health and increased infertility compared with those born at term. The mortality rate of premature infants was relatively small, but significantly higher than in those born at full term children. According to Dr. Geeta Swamy, the sooner the child is born, the more health problems that he have in the future. This is because it is. Not enough time for the full development of all organs Preterm birth is the leading cause of infant mortality in developed countries remains today. Scientists should carefully monitor the health of premature birth, not only in the first years of life, but also for many years. As previously reported, in the industrialized countries, the mortality rate higher for boys than for girls.
Scientists have a protein map of human saliva
U.S. scientists have a protein map (proteome) of human saliva proteins identified more than a thousand in the salivary gland secretions of people of different sex, age and race. The results can be used to develop a new, rapid and minimally invasive test for many dangerous diseases. The implementation of a large-scale research project required the participation of specialists from several research centers: the University of Rochester, The Scripps Research Institute and the University of South Carolina, University of California at San Francisco and the University of California in Los Angeles. The protein composition of human saliva was analyzed by mass spectrometry on samples from 23 healthy individuals from different ethnic groups. The results were compared with the data present on the proteins in the blood and tears. Identified at this time in the human salivary proteins, the markers of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer and breast cancer and diabetes is. The researchers believe that their findings diagnosed significantly expand the list of diseases on the protein composition of saliva. The report on the study in the current issue of the Journal of Proteome Research published.