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As an example of the age-old adage “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” researchers suggest that a chemical called sesaminol, abundant in sesame seed oil, may have protective effects against Parkinson’s disease.
“Currently there is no preventive medicine for Parkinson’s disease; we only have coping treatments.” Associate Professor Kojima-Yuasa led her research group through a series of experiments to understand the effects of sesaminol on
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in vivo Parkinson’s disease models. OCU Associate Professor Akiko Kojima-Yuasa, who led her research group through a series of experiments to understand the effects of sesaminol on
An antioxidant found in sesame seeds may offer a degree of protection against the onset of Parkinson’s disease (PD) according to Japanese scientists, who now want to take their findings to the clinical trial phase.
The findings make for encouraging reading as the extract sesaminol is found in the sesame seed shell waste product produced during the manufacture of sesame seed oil.
“Currently there is no preventive medicine for Parkinson s disease,” states Osaka City University’s Associate Professor Akiko Kojima-Yuasa.
“We only have coping treatments.”
Along with sesaminol’s antioxidant effects, research also points to the extract’s anti-cancer effect that works by reducing the expression of proteins linked to the development and progression of cancer.
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