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IMPS October 2011- Issue No. 6 Page: 1
• Japanese Researchers Became Mus-
lim by Quran’s Miracle
• 1st Meeting of Medicinal Plants
Veterans
• New Medicine for Malaria found in
Native Plants of Khorasan
• Modeling Cancer Using Ecological Principles
• Anti– Virus Stomach Vaccine Using Tobacco
Alternative to Taking Medication
Japanese Researchers Became Muslim by Quran’s Miracle
According to Aljazeera newspaper published in Saudi Arabia, a group of
researchers working on a protein in brain were surprised from the results
of research done by a Muslim doctor ( Dr. Ibrahim Khalife) referring to
Holy Quran and they became Muslim. This research group were investigat‐
ing “Methalonid” a protein which is created in human and animal brain,
and they reached to olive and ficus that Allah
has sworn to it. Methalonid is very essential
and decrease cholesterol and strengthen the
heart and self confidence. According to this
report human brain produce this protein from
51 to 53 years of age and then it reduces gradually and
when you reach to 60 it stops; therefore, getting this substance is not easy.
Researchers are concentrating on plants to find it. They have found that
Methalonid eliminate aging effects and it only exist in olive and ficus. While
God has men oned these two fruits in Quran, 7 mes olive and once ficus.
By mixing these por ons, that is 7 olives and 1 ficus then you will have it.
This was the exact thing that the Japanese research group had found and it
was men oned in Quran 1400 years ago.
1st Meeting of Medicinal Plants Veterans
The 1st mee ng of medicinal plants veterans in Iran was held in research
ins tute of forests and rangelands on 13 October 2011. This mee ng with
presence of those who were over 50 in order to utilize their experiences
for creating a think tank to organize production and utilization of medici‐
nal plants. Dr. Rezaee the chief of Iranian Medicinal Plants Society told
“more than 7 thousands of plant species exists in Iran that only 800 are
among medicinal and ornamental plants”. He added, unfortunately many
of these species after production without process and preparation for
drugs are exported and after these processes are send back to Iran with
very high prices. He said one our major aims is to prevent the exportation
of these species before processing and to
reach this aim we have to have the equip‐
ments. Dr. Rezaee explained, in Iran there
are species as Rosa damascena, Ferula
persica, Ferula gummosa and Bunium per‐
sicum that have unique features in the
world but are exported without processing. Another goal of this meeting
was farming medicinal plants using new technologies.
In this issue
Got an achy back? Grapes could be the
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eating a heaping cup of grapes daily can
relax tight blood vessels, significantly
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tissues (and often within three hours of
enjoying the first bowl). That’s great
news because your back’s vertebrae and
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gen, so improving blood flow is essential
for healing damaged back tissue.
Medicinal Plants Society, Newsletter, Issue No. 6 page: 2
A New Anti-malarial Agent Found in Native
Plants of Khorasan
According to Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) Dr.
Rostayian stated: Malaria is one the most serious health
problems in many parts of the world especially in Africa
and Latin America, with high mortality and resistance to
standard drugs, is dangerous and complicated. This dis‐
ease is caused by a genus of
plasmodium in red blood cells
and transmitted through an in‐
fected bite and cause periodical
fever and chills. He added the
amount of mortality in children under 4 years because of
resistance of parasite to Chloroquie medicine in six years
has increased 11 times. In Africa every year more than
one million children die due to this disease. The thought
to destroy the disease by drug is not realistic. There are
many different drugs suggested and used for malaria
but among them one new and well known one is Ar‐
temisinin . Chemically, Artemisinin is a sesquiterpene
lactone containing an unusual peroxide bridge. It is be‐
lieved that this peroxide is responsible for the drug's
mechanism of action. No other natural compound with
such a peroxide bridge is known. Use of the drug by it‐
self as a monotherapy is explicitly discouraged by the
World Health Organization as there have been signs that
malarial parasites are developing resistance to the drug.
Therapies that combine artemisinin with some other anti
‐malarial drug are the preferred treatment for malaria
and are both effective and well tolerated in patients. The
antimalarial activity of Artemisia diffusa extracts and the
fraction which contains sesquiterpene lactones including
Tehranolide, on Plasmodium berghei in vivo on the mice
model of malaria was investigated. It demonstrates that
crude extracts of Artemisia diffusa inhibit the growth of
Plasmodium berghei in vivo in NMRI mice. The scientific
research article was presented in the fifty ninth Interna‐
tional Congress of Medicinal Plants and Natural Products
in Antalya, Turkey.
Modeling Cancer Using Ecological Principles
The invasion of a new species into an established ecosys‐
tem can be directly compared to the steps involved in
cancer metastasis. New research published in BioMed
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Central's open access journal Theoretical Biology and Medical
Modelling uses the Tilman model of compe on between invasive
species to study the metastasis of prostate cells into bone.
Approximately 40,000 men a year in the US who have apparently suc‐
cessful surgery or radiotherapy for prostate cancer will suffer incur‐
able metastasis of their disease in bone. The prostate cells invade the
bone marrow and, sometimes after years of remaining dormant, com‐
pete with hematopoietic stem cells and take over the bone microenvi‐
ronment. The Tilman model examines various components of invasion
of species into an environment. Kun‐Wan Chen and Kenneth J. Pienta
from the University of Michigan substituted steps in cancer progres‐
sion into the Tilman equations. After initially multiplying and undergo‐
ing genetic mutation (equivalent to evolution) within the prostate, the
cancer cells leave the prostate and enter the circulation. The next step
is a period of survival in circulation followed by invasion into bone.
Once in the bone there is a 'lag period' while the cells establish them‐
selves. Eventually, the cancer cells begin to multiply and out‐compete
the hematopoietic stem cells. Kun‐Wan Chen explained, "The invading
cancer cells could be thought of as several species, and the fittest mu‐
tants become dominant and multiply. Eventually there is a massive
impact on the biosphere (human host)." Prof Pienta continued,
"Devastating ecological invasions are well known. For example intro‐
duction of domestic animals to Mauritius resulted in extinction of the
dodo and Caulerpa taxifolia, a mutated killer algae, is plaguing the
Mediterranean. Cancer metastasis follows a similar path to that of
ecological invasions and our adaptation of the Tilman equations
shows how invading cancer cells can destroy the normal body habitat.
Use of ecological modeling can help us understand the complex biol‐
ogy of metastasis."
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Anti- virus Stomach Vaccine Using Tobacco Researchers with a new method transform tobacco to a protein
for aspiration vaccine in order to combat with norovirus. This
virus exits in restaurants, ships, schools and military garrisons
and cause diarrhea and vomi ng. According to sta s cs of dis‐
ease control in US annually 23 million people suffer from this
disease. Researchers used changed genetical virus in tobacco
for this vaccine.