Red Wine Can Prove To Be Good For the Blinding Diseases
July 27th, 2010
A group of researchers’ have found a very useful aspect of the red wine and according to that a special ingredient in the red wine named as Resveratrol helps in preventing the out-of-control blood vessels in growth in the eyes.
This ingredient is also found in grapes, blueberries, peanuts and other plants and all this research have been carries by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Washington University retina specialist Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD, the study’s senior investigator while discussing about this new study said that “A great deal of research has identified resveratrol as an anti-aging compound, and given our interest in age-related eye disease, we wanted to find out whether there was a link”.
The mice were investigated during all this research and especially those mice were selected which develop abnormal blood vessels in the retina of their eye. After giving Resveratrol to mice the results that were obtained were quite amazing, the abnormal blood vessels started to disappear.
Apte while discussing about the results said that “We have identified a novel pathway that could become a new target for therapies” and further “And we believe the pathway may be involved both in age-related eye disease and in other diseases where angiogenesis plays a destructive role”.
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