strawberries: Flavonoids -diabetes and nervous system disorders

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It's Not an Apple a Day After All -- It's Strawberries: Flavonoids Could

Represent Two-Fisted Assault On Diabetes and Nervous System Disorders

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110627183932.htm

ScienceDaily (June 28, 2011) --- A recent study from scientists at the

Salk Institute for Biological Studies suggests that a strawberry a day

(or more accurately, 37 of them) could keep not just one doctor away,

but an entire fleet of them, including the neurologist, the

endocrinologist, and maybe even the oncologist.

Investigations conducted in the Salk Institute's Cellular Neurobiology

Laboratory (CNL) will appear in the June 27, 2011, issue of /PLoS ONE/.

The report explains that fisetin, a naturally-occurring flavonoid found

most abundantly in strawberries and to a lesser extent in other fruits

and vegetables, lessens complications of diabetes. Previously, the lab

showed that fisetin promoted survival of neurons grown in culture and

enhanced memory in healthy mice. That fisetin can target multiple organs

strongly suggests that a single drug could be used to mitigate numerous

medical complications....

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Fisetin Lowers Methylglyoxal Dependent Protein Glycation and Limits the

Complications of Diabetes

<http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0021226>

Pamela Maher, Dargusch, L. Ehren, Shinichi Okada, Kumar

Sharma, Schubert

*/PLoS ONE/*/:/ Research Article, published 27 Jun 2011

10.1371/journal.pone.0021226

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