"Science et Vie" May 2009
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"That may be the end of a controversy. In the 1970s the chemist Linus Pauling and Nobel lent to ascorbic acid - or Vitamin C - virtues against cancer. But the idea was discussed by lack of evidence. Now, a team from the Faculty of Medicine of Marseille shows that the molecule does have anti cancerous. "Our work is based on a discovery made five years ago and says Michel Fontes. Ascorbic acid inhibits the expression of the gene involved in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a rare neurological disease." This time researchers have grown human skin cells with high concentrations of vitamin C. And they found that several genes involved in cell proliferation, and thus the mechanism of carcinogenesis, are inhibited better: cancerous mice treated with massive doses of ascorbic acid virtually all survive, their tumors regressed and no metastasis is formed . "We must now consider fast trials in humans, "concludes the researcher.
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