Southern Medical University proposes a new plan to kill Helicobacter pylori

According to Professor Bi Hongkai of Nanjing Medical University's School of Basic Medicine, humans are the only natural host of Helicobacter pylori, it is not easy to kill stomach acid, currently commonly use antibiotics against Helicobacter pylori, but long-term use will cause the strain to appear resistant, destroy the balance of gastrointestinal flora, produce a series of side effects"Our idea is to develop new antimicrobials to reduce antibiotic useBi Hongkai said that the team synthesized a small molecular compound of zinc linolenic acid, at present, this compound through in vitro antiseptic effect, gastric mucosal tissue pathological repair, inflammatory factor regulation, cell and organ damage evaluation and other studies, found that it can selectively kill Helicobacter pylori, not easy to produce drug resistance, high safety, with research and development potentialit is understood that the new compound has been national patents, the relevant results by the field of antimicrobial scounades authoritative journal "antibacterial preparations and chemotherapy" published.