AnCaps
ANARCHO-CAPITALISTS
Bitch-Slapping Statists For Fun & Profit Based On The Non-Aggression Principle
 
HomePortalGalleryRegisterLog in

 :: Anarcho-Capitalist Categorical Imperatives :: AnCaps In Science, Technology & Environment
 

 Common solvent may be new anti-cancer tool

View previous topic View next topic Go down 
AuthorMessage
RR Phantom

RR Phantom

Location : Wasted Space
Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary

Common solvent may be new anti-cancer tool Vide
PostSubject: Common solvent may be new anti-cancer tool   Common solvent may be new anti-cancer tool Icon_minitimeThu May 08, 2014 7:59 pm
A common industrial solvent may have a vital anti-cancer effect, Melbourne researchers say.

Common solvent may be new anti-cancer tool Hospital4_19mnpsn-19mnpsr

Researchers from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre say he solvent, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (or NMP), may be used to kill cancer cells in patients and help the immune system to fight the disease.

NMP is found in a wide range of domestic, industrial and medical products including paints, fabrics, medical patches and dental barriers.

Dr Jake Shortt (Shortt), a haematologist at the Monash Medical Centre who also works in the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre's gene regulation laboratory, said the research, released on Friday, found NMP can affect the growth and survival of multiple myeloma cells and may stimulate the immune system to kill them.

"Working with Peter Macs Haematology Immunology Translational Research Laboratory, we found NMP effectively reprograms myeloma cells by targeting a class of gene-regulating proteins," he said.

"This reprogramming reawakens thousands of genes that have been silenced in the cancer cells, immediately stopping the myeloma cells from growing, while activating the immune system to respond to the cancer."

Professor Ricky Johnstone, head of the gene regulation laboratory, said the anti-cancer properties of NMP were first noticed by researchers four years ago.

"In a routine experiment in 2010, Dr Shortt noticed our pre-clinical models of myeloma were responding to the control dose of NMP, which was surprising as this control dose contained none of the novel cancer agents we were actually testing."

Previously, NMP was only used to transport, store and deliver compounds during research.

The discovery may pave the way for a world-first clinical trial involving patients at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Monash Medical Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital later this year.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/23345720/common-solvent-may-be-new-anti-cancer-tool/
Back to top Go down
 

Common solvent may be new anti-cancer tool

View previous topic View next topic Back to top 
Page 1 of 1

Permissions in this forum:You cannot reply to topics in this forum
 :: Anarcho-Capitalist Categorical Imperatives :: AnCaps In Science, Technology & Environment-
 :: 

Anarcho-Capitalist Categorical Imperatives

 :: 

AnCaps In Science, Technology & Environment
Index, Portal, Induct Yourself Here, Forum Technical Non-Assistance, Philosophy & Religion, Realpolitik Statism & Bureaucracy, Law & Order, Rights Individualism & Lifestyles, Laissez-faire Free Trade Zone, Science Technology & Environment, Psychology Edumbcation & IndoctriNation, Culture & Art, Ancapdemia's Ebony Basement, High Octane One-on-One Debate, Celebrate Evildoers' Inadvertent Contributions to Ancap Values, Idiot of the Week Award Nominees Are, Humor, Freestyle Miscellaneous, Ancaps Emporium, OZschwitz Slave Pen Downunder Boutique, Anarcho-Capitalists,AnCaps Forum,Anti-State,Anti-Statist,Inalienable Rights Defenders,Non-Aggression Principle,Non-Initiation of Force Principle,Rothbardians,Anarchist,Capitalist,objectivism,Ayn Rand,Anarcho-Capitalism,Anarcho-Capitalist,politics,libertarianism,Ancap Forum,Anarchist Forum,Vulgar Libertarians,Hippies of The Right,Forum for Anarcho-Capitalist,Forum for Anarcho-Capitalists,Forum for AnCap,Forum for AnCaps,Libertarian,Anarcho-Objectivist,Freedom, Laissez Faire, Free Trade, Black Market, Randroid, Randroids, Rothbardian, AynArchist,Anarcho-Capitalist Forum, Anarchism, Anarchy, Free Market Anarchism, Free Market Anarchy, Market Anarchy, Market Anarchism, Volunteerism, Libertarian anarchism,
Create free forum | ©phpBB | Free forum support | Report an abuse | Forumotion.com