{"id":3350,"date":"2019-11-15T12:55:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T12:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2021-07-24T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T18:35:10","slug":"green-tea-to-be-used-as-remote-control-in-treating-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/green-tea-to-be-used-as-remote-control-in-treating-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Green tea to be used as \u201cRemote Control\u201d in treating Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Green tea is a promising beverage\nfor people looking for health benefits since ancient years. Green tea contains\nvarious flavonoids, amino-acid theanine, catechins, protocatechuic acid and\nother metabolites that are beneficial for humans. Now, researches are utilizing\nantioxidant-rich green tea for a promising modern approach – Triggering Cell Therapies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This cell therapy approach is\nprimarily for treating diabetes, a metabolic disorder that affects millions of\npeople worldwide. Now, a person can control or cure his diabetes just by having\nthis potent beverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A team of researches and scientists from the First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University and East China Normal University discovered that green tea fed to mice or monkeys can function to activate genetically engineered cells inserted in them for treatment of diabetes. Different Cell-therapies have a greater prophylactic effect on many diseases like cancer due to the development of biotechnology and the genetic engineering field in recent years. But mostly, the therapeutic effects depend upon the chemical substances used to activate or release therapeutic substances from cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To refine these cell therapies, Jianli\nYin from China and her co-workers found a better triggering compound in the\nform of Green tea that is natural, organic, and non-toxic, preferably good for\nhuman health since other triggering molecules like antibodies or other chemical\ncompounds have toxic effect after prolonged use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team created engineered gene\n\u201cswitches\u201d via genetic engineering that could be activated by protocatechuic\nacid or PCA molecules contained in Green tea before their insertion in mice or\nmonkeys. This new approach incorporates SWITCH ON \/ SWITCH OFF system regulated\nby protocatechuic acid, or PCA. Studies reported that implantation of PCA\nresponsive cells in diabetic mice or monkeys repairs insulin-levels, and their blood\nglucose levels declined. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CN109456992A<\/a>,\ntitled \u201cThe multi-functional gene expression platform of protocatechuic acid\nregulation and its application,\u201d assigned to UNIV EAST CHINA NORMAL, discloses the\nmulti-functional genes of green tea metabolin, protocatechuic acid regulation\nexpresses platform, which is categorized in that the platform is regulated and\ncontrolled with protocatechuic acid Switching system includes “ON”\nsystem of protocatechuic acid regulation and the “Off” system of\nprotocatechuic acid regulation in treating diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medical researchers used human\nembryonic kidney cells to be triggered in the presence of PCA for the release\nof the therapeutic agent. PCA regulation system functions as a switch \/ remote\ncontrol to turn the activity of the engineered cells ON and OFF. Studies were\nalso done to analyze whether PCA could be a potential metabolite\/compound to\nimprove targeting CRISPR gene editing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Microencapsulated engineered human cells containing the PCA-switch (Source)<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Green tea is considered safe with a negation of any side effects such as inflammation and increased WBC counts. The lab tests have been performed only on mice or monkeys until now; the question is whether this new approach could be delivered to humans as well. We will have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Green tea is a promising beverage for people looking for health benefits since ancient years. Green tea contains various flavonoids, amino-acid theanine, catechins, protocatechuic acid and other metabolites that are beneficial for humans. Now, researches are utilizing antioxidant-rich green tea for a promising modern approach – Triggering Cell Therapies. This cell therapy approach is primarily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[369,416],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-from-the-greatest","tag-cells","tag-gene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}