Researchers of the American Chemical Society are using found a protein from copperhead snake venom can slow breast tumor growth. The protein blocks tumor cell adhesion and invasion and inhibits new blood vessel development in the tumors. Researchers from Australia are using snake venom to cure cancer.
1:SVT(snake veom toxin) would inhibit the growth of AICAP
According to a article from Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, snake venom has positive effects for inhibiting the growth of AICAP. The molecular was on nuclear factor, an anti-apoptotic transcriptional factor that can activate AICAP cell. The scientists treated AICAP cells with SVT for 24 hours, and then assessed their growth and found it slow the activation of NF-b which can speed up cancer cell growth.
2: Australian found snake venom can slow Tumor growth.
According to the anti-cancer research hold by Australian, the researchers found that a compound from snake venom can destroy cells that contribute to supplying blood and nutrients to tumours.
“What we’ve found that’s quite interesting to us is that the level of material that’s required, that is the concentration of material that’s required, is much lower than we would have expected normally,” Associate Professor Tony Woods said.
“In fact, at the levels we’re using these compounds seem to affect the blood vessels that supply tumours only and not normal blood vessels.”
In the near future, more and more drugs which is used to cure cancer are from the snake venom.