I assume that black raspberries translates into blackberries for we island
dwellers.
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Black Raspberries May Protect Against Esophageal Cancer (Barrett's
esophagus)
Blog Name: Eating Fabulous
Friday, December 07, 2007
In a research on animal models, black raspberries have been shown to
protect
against esophageal cancer by reducing oxidative stress in patients with
Barrett's esophagus (BE), a precancerous condition that usually arises due
to gastroesophageal reflux disease.
According to Kresty, research using animal models of BE showed that black
raspberries inhibited chemically induced oral, esophageal and colon
cancers.
The studies showed that berries reduced measures of oxidative stress (the
destruction done to cells by oxygen ions or small reactive molecules
containing oxygen), decreased DNA damage, inhibited cellular proliferation
rates, and reduced the number of pre-cancerous cells in the esophagus and
colon.
"We can give black raspberries before we have any initiated cells, or we
can
administer after we already know we have initiated cells," Kresty said.
"What's promising about the berries is that they work in both cases, and
in
multiple models. There aren't nearly as many agents that work in the
latter
scenario."
This study has been presented during the American Association for Cancer
Research's Sixth Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer
Prevention.
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