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Researchers Prove Chlorella Can Cure Dengue

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Source: http://www.detiknews.com/read/2010/...eneliti-buktikan-chlorella-bisa-sembuhkan-dbd

Google translation from Indonesian:

Thursday, 04/02/2010 18:28 WIB
Researchers Prove Chlorella Can Cure Dengue
M. Rizal Maslan - detikNews


Jakarta - Still a lot of people are concerned with the disease dengue hemorrhagic fever or DHF because of not availability of antiviral drugs and vaccines to cure. However, a group of researchers from hospitals and universities to prove substances can accelerate the healing Chlorella DHF.

The researchers made a number of doctors from the Hospital Bhakti Karya, Medicine Association (PAPDI) Bogor Branch and Faculty of Human Ecology at IPB (FEMA IPB). They have proved Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF) can accelerate the healing of DHF patients and shorten the treatment period in hospital.

Research conducted since April 2009 until Desembar included 84 dengue patients. "They are receiving treatment according to WHO procedure. In addition, they were given additional supplements CGF40, the other half did not. As a result, patients with additional treatment CGF40 period average 4.43 days," said lead researcher Dr. Adi Teruna Sp PD of RS Karya Bakti in a press conference at the FX Plaza, Senayan, Jakarta, Thursday (4/2/2010).

According to Adi, CGF revealed clinically able to increase platelet DHF patients more progressive and fast. The study also found that the CGF able to demonstrate the concept of regenerative medicine by pressing significantly chemical oxidative stress, improve blood vessel disorders, and stimulates increased production of bone marrow function.

"CGF itself is a component of natural nutrients that can boost the immune system, accelerate wound healing, enabling him to assist the healing and rejuvenating the human body, repairing cells damaged and stimulate growth of new cells and the young. CGF is also able to slow the process aging because the nukleatnya acid content high, "he explained at length.

Adi explained, CGF was first extracted with electrophoresis using hot water by another Japanese researcher, Dr. Fujimaki in the early 1950s in Tokyo, Japan, and CGF named for its ability to support the growth of children.

"Hemorrhagic Fever (DD) or also known as Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) remains one of the most frightening specter, because often take casualties. Especially when it has entered the rainy season where the puddles left after the rain is very possible Aedes aegypti mosquito breeding, the propagator of the virus, "he said.

Added Adi, since first discovered in Indonesia in 1968, dengue victims continue to fall. In 1998 it was recorded, 58,000 people become victims. Not a few, patients who died of Aedes aegypti mosquito bites this.

"Most of them had managed to salvage the loss of body fluids, too late to overcome a high fever, metabolic disturbances or lack of adequate nutrition intake associated with the immune system," he said.
 
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Source: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/algae-extract-fights-dengue-study/356808

February 04, 2010
Dessy Sagita

Algae Extract Fights Dengue: Study

Dengue fever sufferers may have a new option in the treatment of the often fatal disease as Indonesian doctors have found that a chlorella extract, a genus of single-celled green algae, accelerates the recovery process and increases the chances of surviving the disease.

?Our latest study found that giving a chlorella extract to dengue fever patients increases the blood platelets and improves the hemoglobin, allowing patients to recuperate faster,? Dr. Adi Teruna Effendi, an internist who headed the research team, told a news conference on Thursday.

The study ran from April to October 2009, involving 84 serious dengue fever patients at the Karya Bhakti Hospital in Bogor under the supervision of researchers from the Indonesian Internists Association and the Faculty of Human Ecology at the Bogor Agriculture Institute.

Adi said the team divided the patients into two groups; the first getting the chlorella extract as a supporting supplement during treatment while the others received standard treatment as advised by the World Health Organization.

?Those who were given the chlorella extract stayed in hospital only 2.76 days on average, while those who didn?t stayed 4.4 days,? he said.

Adi said the quick recovery was the result of the chlorella boosting the body?s immunity system because of its high concentration of amino acid and a range of vitamins.

He said that chlorella worked as an inhibitor that prevented the dengue virus from replicating and decreased the chance of patients suffering from high fever.

?The supplement could shorten the patients stay in the hospital,? the doctor said.

During the study, Adi said, the team monitored the patients? platelet and hemoglobin level everyday and those who were given chlorella extract showed impressive progress.

Adi said the findings had been reported to the Ministry of Health and received a positive response. ?The ministry has asked us to research chlorella further to develop more possibilities,? he said, adding that scientists in Japan were also interested and wanted to collaborate on the study.

Unfortunately, he said, Indonesia was not yet able to produce the extract locally and had to import it from Japan.

?We already know how to grow green algae but we don?t have the technology to extract its certain substances yet,? he said.

Adi said chlorella could be consumed as a preventative medicinal supplement.

?The chlorella extract is quite expensive but people can take raw chlorella or the tablet to boost their immune system,? he said.
 
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From Swarm Trackers newsletter 2006

more on TMOF

Dov Borovsky

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Entomology Professor Dov Borovsky has developed a mosquito “diet pill” that alters their digestion, making it impossible for them to feed, lay eggs or survive.
Borovsky discovered that the TMOF (trypsin modulating oostatic factor) hormone can stop digestion in mosquito larvae, causing them to die of starvation. He is using biotechnology to incorporate the TMOF hormone into a variety of microorganisms that mosquitoes eat.
“The same pond scum that nourishes young mosquitoes can now deliver their death blow,” Borovsky said.
Borovsky’s team has genetically engineered the aquatic organism chlorella, found in marshes, as a means to help to control mosquito larvae that eat chlorella and algae. After eating the chlorella, the larvae cannot digest food, and they die from starvation.
He has also genetically engineered yeast to produce TMOF. The yeast can be mass-produced, dried, formulated and sprayed over large areas like other pesticides. The yeast starves the mosquito larvae to death after they eat the cells.

http://www.research.ufl.edu/publications/explore/v11n2/story1.html
 
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