Vegetable called bitter melon that has a unique shape, like a wrinkled green skin wrinkles. Tend to be somewhat bitter taste, especially when one process.
And it turns out, a study showed that the extract of bitter melon fruit was found to block the growth of cancer cells, in cases of pancreatic and breast cancer.
"Three years ago, the scientists show the effect of bitter melon extract on breast cancer cells. Extracts also affect glucose metabolism pathway to restrict energy and kill pancreatic cancer cells," said the leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control at the CU Cancer Center, Rajesh Agarwal, PhD.
Professor of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, said that pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer, and has a high mortality rate because of not easily detected.
Researchers saw a decline of up to 60 percent of the capacity of pancreatic cancer cells to grow, the test mice that had been transferred to the cancer cells, after being given bitter melon extract.
Pare the extract works by preventing the cells from glucose metabolism and make the cancer cells starve and run out of energy sources.
Cancer cells rely largely on glucose for energy growing, because these cells have a problem to produce alternative forms of energy itself.
"Many researchers engineer new drugs to target cancer cells' ability to have its own energy supply, and here we have a compound that is naturally able to do that," said Agarwal, as quoted by Medical Daily.
From now on, do not be rejected again with the properties of this vegetable is slightly bitter.
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