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Cancer cells can be eradicated by turmeric
Posted on: 10/Mar/2016 10:35:28 AM
A team of researchers headed by Dr R Baskaran, an Associate Professor from Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pondicherry University in collaboration with Pittsburgh Cancer Institute have taken a significant stride in uncovering the mechanism by which curcumin, a bioactive ingredient of turmeric, commonly used in every household in India, can not only prevent but also can effectively cure colorectal cancer.
Dr. R. Baskaran and his research group have mentioned, While curcumin`s chemoprevention property is well documented, its ability to kill colorectal cancer cells is not as clearly known or understood. Curcumin, derived from the dietary turmeric (Curcuma longa) is an effective anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant agent. Studies on the effect of curcumin on the entire cell death process, both in tumour and normal cells, are useful for the ongoing preclinical and clinical investigations on this potential chemo-preventive agent.
To this end, Dr. R. Baskaran and his research group previously reported in a series of publications that human Non-polyposis colorectal cancer cells (HNPCC) arising due to genetic mutations in mismatch repair genes (MMR) are highly sensitive to curcumin due to unrepaired DNA damage.
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