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The milk kills cancer cells
This was discovered by chance, 7 years ago at the University of Lund, Sweden, when Anders Hakansson was experimenting with breast milk, microbes and cells, observed that the nuclei cancer cells were reduced by contact with human milk. This is what reported immediately to your teacher Catharina Svanborg, who diagnosed the problem, "the cancer cells are committing suicide" somehow breast milk induced these cells to kill themselves.
was eager to investigate, what contained in breast milk, which was capable of killing cancer cells?, This discovery could result in a cure for cancer? Try
required human and financial resources. His laboratory, had little personal. Most were busy with their own projects against infectious diseases.
"If this were a pharmaceutical company, a might say, takes a group and devote yourself to it, "says Catharina. "But it is a university and most are students. If you already have their thesis projects, one can not force them to concentrate on something else. "
"I intend to facilitate creative environments. I like to encourage people to make contributions based on who they are and how they think. This finding cancer was a fluke. But these incidents occur when people are in a situation that promotes creativity. Nobody can define what happens, but there is a happiness implicit "
The preparation of Catharina and her group, she facilitated the investigation, they had studied the nature and function of epithelial cells lining the digestive system that come into contact with breast milk to feed the infant. Had experimented with breast milk and their action against pneumococci and had shown that children who are breastfed have a lower incidence of ear infections and respiratory tract.
And in the medical literature and had published a study showing protection against breast cancer (relative risk of carcinomas and within them, childhood lymphomas occurring in nine times higher in children who drink milk modified, in relation to taking milk from its mother). Svanborg wondered where lay the difference. You hold in your hands, results that can provide an answer. "We were excited," he says.
2 years passed before the team was ready to share their findings with the rest of the world. In August 1995, announced that destroys breast cancer cells and identified one of the most abundant proteins in human milk, called alpha-lactalbumin, soy protein may perform monitoring functions in the infant, removing the malignant cells and stimulating the growth of normal. It was a joyous observation, but that excitement was not shared by all cancer researchers.
But someone receptive was John Stevens, vice-president of grants from the American Cancer Society (SEC), who on reading the report Svanborg, decided to go to Sweden. "I had not heard before Lund, but found that Catharina and her team are talented and dedicated scientists and their discovery was fascinating," A grant of $ 200,000,000 converted to Lab Svanborg the only outside the United States in having the backing of the SEC.
"This gave us recognition," says Catharina "had come out of nowhere and the company gave us the stamp of quality, then the weight we need to prove this was true and that could be repeated. "
That effort has taken another four years. In January Svanborg published the latest results of the team, bolstered by new collaborators, including scientists from the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and the University of Oxford in England. The studies explain how transformed alpha-lac, kills cancer cells and other risk also active against pneumococci. With its longstanding interest in the infectious enfermadades, Svanborg is very excited about this finding and predicts that the alpha-lac could be used as medicine needed to prevent infection.
The team has christened the new protein as HAMLET, an acronym in English for "Alpha-lactalbumin lethal human tumors."
One of the keys to their action is surrounding acid content. At the beginning when Catharina poured the milk over the cells, adding acid to the solution, hoping to separate the antimicrobial blockers could not imagine that this acid bath, like a magic potion to transform the alpha-lac in the aggressive HAMLET. But the acid was not everything, it required another mysterious factor, which proved to be another component of milk (the lab for now reserves his identity).
Human milk contains alpha-lac, lactose production, also contains the secret component. The milk goes down the baby's digestive tract and stomach is achieved gastric acid, similar to the acid solution Svanborg experiment, which turned the alpha-lac in anticancer version called HAMLET. Now scientists have the ability to generate genetically engineered HAMLET.
While waiting for the reaction of the scientific community, the team is exploring ways of making a treatment HAMLET applicable to cancer and infectious diseases. "This substance kills many types of cancer cells. He has worked in all cancers that we tested: lung, throat, kidney, colon, bladder, lymphoma, leukemia, etc. But the reaction of cancer cells in the laboratory, not necessarily indicate the response of the tumors in people, "" The only way to know is to test in humans. It may be possible to conduct a pilot study of safety on a small scale within a short time. Maybe about 6 months. We do not want to wait for years. "
Catharina Svanborg, ends by saying:" When we started the investigation in this place in the confines of the earth, only a few were aware now that this opportunity has come we want the whole world is "
Interview by Peter Radetsky. Taken from the magazine Discover. July 1999.
This is wonderful news, researchers are opening a vast panorama. Human milk is a treasure to be discovered and rescued. One way is by creating a Human Milk Bank at the University, for children who can not receive milk from its mother, for patients with intractable diarrheas with AIDS, with gastritis or ulcers, to treat otitis, conjunctivitis etc. etc. to the regeneration of skin and wound healing by epidermal growth factor. In addition to the Human Milk Bank is obtained samples for research, that as the milk and natural live food should not have side effects for humans.
In many countries, there are milk banks, for example, Brazil has 100 human milk banks and Venezuela only 1 that works in the Hospital Universitario de Caracas.
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