To prevent cancer
eat more and more Sapota fruit. Sapota fruit, a popular ingredient for
desserts, could well be the answer to stop cancer from spreading, according to
a study by Indian scientists.
Researchers have
able to prove methanolic (alcoholic) extracts of the whole fruit possess
certain active photochemical (plant-derived compounds) that can trigger a
sequence of orchestrated events in tumour cells leading to their death (a
process called apoptosis).
“ This was a
preliminary study which had used two of the phytochemicals isolated from Sapota
fruit on cancer cell lines. Ours is the first study using whole fruit
methanolic extracts which explores anti-cancer properties of the same on
different cancer cell lines and on animal models.
According to
professor Sathees C. Raghavan ( At the department of Biochemistry) “Our results
indicate that inclusion of Sapota fruit in our daily diet may protect from
genesis and progression of cancer,”
The collaborative
study was conducted by scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISC),
Bangalore, and the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology,
Bangalore.
This report was
published in August in Nature Publishing Group’s journal Scientific Reports.
As the disturbing
figures rise on one hand, there is also, on the other end, mounting evidences
of plant derived dietary substances as “suitable candidates for treating
various types of cancers due to their broad chemical diversity”.
Professor Raghavan
explained: “We have tested its effect on cancer cells derived from different
cancers such as leukemia, breast, ovarian and lung carcinomas. We found that it
induces apoptosis in all types of cancers with varying efficiencies.
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