Posted on 06/25/2010 3:32:06 AM PDT by decimon
Resveratrol — found in red wine, grapes, blueberries, peanuts and other plants — stops out-of-control blood vessel growth in the eye, according to vision researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
The discovery has implications for preserving vision in blinding eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 50.
The formation of new blood vessels, called angiogenesis, also plays a key role in certain cancers and in atherosclerosis. Conducting experiments in mouse retinas, the researchers found that resveratrol can inhibit angiogenesis. Another surprise was the pathway through which resveratrol blocked angiogenesis. The findings are reported in the July issue of the American Journal of Pathology.
“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,” says Washington University retina specialist Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD, the study’s senior investigator. “There were reports on resveratrol’s effects on blood vessels in other parts of the body, but there was no evidence that it had any effects within the eye.”
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I am doing my part but still need glasses
I’ll drink to that!
Ripple helping America’s see.
buvons en coeur!
Good news! So this could theoretically counteract other activities which cause blindness?
Sipping from glasses is okay. Swigging from the jug is a bad sign. ;-)
I guess I’ll have to drink red wine once in a while. I don’t care for it very much, unfortunately.
LOL! You owe me a monitor!
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