Scientists use red wine molecules in a revolutionary drug to ease blood pressure
A team of British scientists announced today that molecules found in red wine can be used to create a new treatment for high blood pressure.
Resveratrol, a compound produced in grape skins, has long been described as an elixir capable of fighting many diseases from cancer to dementia, but scientists are always struggling to translate these results into successful treatments.
Now experts at Kings College in London say they have figured out how they work. With funding from the British Heart Foundation, they found that resveratrol reacts with a protein called PKG1a In the wall of blood vessels, resveratrol adds oxygen to the protein, leading to relaxation and expansion of the blood vessels and quickly leads to a decrease in blood pressure.
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Many have assumed that it is an "antioxidant" or a substance that stops the harmful oxygen cells in the body, but now the resveratrol method has been discovered.
But in fact, the opposite happens, where oxygen in the bloodstream is allowed to interact and oxidize a protein PKG1a.
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The scientists added that no existing blood pressure drugs work in this way, paving the way for a whole new class of drugs.
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