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Research focus: Maqui berry as an anti-inflammatory
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Maqui is known for its power as an antioxidant, its benefits to the human immune system and their uses in the treatment of ailments. These include fever, ulcers and diabetes. Also believed to have anti-inflammatory properties, although this has been largely unrecognized by the scientific community until recently. pioneering work published in South America this year (2010) of Carlos Céspedes and others, tried to quantify this. Concluded that " fruits and its components A.chilensis have excellent anti-inflammatory activities. "
The study used fruit, air dried and prepared for extraction. The specimens were deposited in two collections Univiersity control purposes. The extracts, fractions and subfractions of the fruit and its individual compounds were prepared using laboratory grade solvents.
To test the anti-inflammatory action researchers induced edema (swelling inflammatory) in ears of mice, the use of acetone solutions and varying amounts of the Maqui extract. They also used a variety of solutions of the various fractions and subfractions. This methodology was designed to calculate the degree to which Maqui and its components are capable of inhibiting inflammation.
Maqui done well. "All samples, "says the report" showed a dose-dependent activity anti-inflammatory. … This is comparable with data collected by Céspedes for ovatifolin indomethacin, two anti-inflammatory drugs on the market. Maqui and its constituents, the report concludes, "have great potential as a source of natural products health.
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