Oleander Found to Induce Autophagy

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Oleander Found to Induce Autophagy Against Cancer Cells by Tony Isaacs

</bio.htm> September 19, 2007

 

Phoenix Biotech manager Dennis Knocke reported today       that

noted MD Anderson researcher Doctor       Robert Newman, the lead

research scientist in a number       of important studies on

oleander and oleander compounds,       has recently finished a new

study due to be published       soon in peer reviewed journal

which indicates that oleander induces and increases autophagy, a natural

body       defensive mechanism against cancer which encapsulates

      tumors and cancer cells.

 

The new study appears       to provide an important new piece of

evidence in       understanding why oleander has proven to be

successful against many forms of cancer. In previous studies on    

  oleander, many of which were also led by Dr. Newman,      

oleander extracts have been shown to 1) inhibit      

angiogenesis, the process where cancer produces blood      

vessels and spreads, 2) inhibit the NF-kB factor in cancer cells, which

is the process that cells use to       protect themselves when

they come under attack, 3)       induce apoptosis, or normal cell

death, in cancer cells,       and 4) greatly stimulate immune

activity.

 

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