Curcumin has been found to play a role as a drug precursor
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Last Update: 2018-01-22
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Turmeric is a perennial herb, which is the source of traditional Chinese medicine (http:// material "turmeric" (http:// Recently, published in the latest issue of Journal of biological chemistry, Dr Claus Schneider and other researchers found that curcumin can play a role as a drug precursor, that is, its metabolites have anti-inflammatory activity The researchers found that the metabolites produced by the oxidation of curcumin can combine with NF kb in the form of covalent bond, thus inhibiting the inflammatory response The results showed that the biological activity index of metabolites should be used as the evaluation criteria for clinical trials of curcumin and other edible polyphenols (http:// including resveratrol in red wine, quercetin in onion, epicatechin gallate (epeg) in green tea, etc.
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