Wheat sprouts vs cataract

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Hi All,

Can wheat sprouts provide the goodies required to reverse cataracts? The

pdf-available paper below suggests that they might.

Basso A, Rossolini G, Piantanelli A, Amici D, Calzuola I, Mancinelli L, Marsili

V,

Gianfranceschi GL.

Aging Reversibility: from Thymus Graft to Vegetable Extract Treatment -

Application

to Cure an Age-associated Pathology.

Biogerontology. 2005;6(4):245-53.

PMID: 16333758

Neonatal thymus graft and thymus calf extract (TME) in vivo treatment exert

similar

corrective actions on different mouse age-related alterations. The aim of the

present paper is to investigate whether a vegetal extract, wheat sprout extract

(WESPRE), could mimic the thymus action on recovering age-related alterations

and if

this extract can cure an age-associated pathology, the cataract in dogs. Present

experiments were carried out by using WESPRE and TME in vivo in old mice to

check

their ability to recover the altered DNA synthesis in hepatocyte primary

cultures.

Old mice treated with WESPRE and TME showed a recovery of hepatocyte DNA

synthesis

levels when compared with the old untreated ones. The increase of DNA and

protein

contents observed in aged animals is reduced by WESPRE treatments to levels

observed

in young mice hepatocytes. We measured also WESPRE phosphorylation activity by

endogenous kinase: it was from 10 to 40 times higher with respect to wheat

seeds.

Old dogs were orally treated for a month and the lens opacity analysed before

and

after the treatment. Results showed a reduction from 25 to 40% of lens opacity.

The

efficacy of wheat sprouts in the recovery of age-related alterations and in

treating

age-associated pathologies could be due to the contemporary presence of small

regulatory acid peptides, a remarkable level of highly energetic phosphoric

radicals

and antioxidant molecules, peculiarities that may be, to some extent, related to

the

aging process regulation.

Al Pater, PhD; email: old542000@...

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