They grow in UNAM & # 39; super chayote & # 39; against cancer

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After a decade of research and laboratory testing, researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM ]) managed to develop a "super-chayote" whose crude extract contains a potent anticancer and antineoplastic agent (against cancer), but which is good for normal cells .

Edelmiro, specialist in cell biology Santiago Osorio, who with his working group of the Faculty of Higher Studies (FES) Zaragoza managed to develop this hybrid of two species of stupid chayotes Mexican stress, said surprised to corroborate the activity of this vegetable as antineoplastic agent.

Even, he said, is as potent as cytarabine, a drug used in the treatment of certain types of cancer, whose mechanism is based on interfering with DNA synthesis ] which prevents the multiplication of malignant cells.

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] The crude extract of the hybrid generated in your laboratory is a thousand times more powerful than the specimens that can be found in a common market so we seek to create or incubate a company putting the active substance at the disposal of the public of this "super -chayote ".

We would have to eat several kilos of chayote from the market to have the effect we got with the hybrid; However, indiscriminately it is healthy to consume this cucurbite, in fact in hospitals it is a fundamental part of the diet, "he said.

According to the UNAM's Directorate General of Social Communication, the potential of the crude extract of the university hybrid is badessed in leukemic cell lines and normal bone marrow mononuclear cells of mice, and has been shown to strongly inhibit the proliferation of certain cell lines

FES researcher Zaragoza explained that the idea of ​​him and his team is not to look for a single molecule, but to have an arsenal: "We must find a way to attack at the same time with several molecules in different points of possible development of the tumor cell."

Santiago, began in 2005 to join the efforts of agronomists who investigated the chayote of to know that 39, another biological effect was I would have, apart from the nutritional benefits.