Forskolin tegen blaasontstekingen.*
Forskolin, een extract uit het kruid coreus forskohlii, blijkt zeer effectief te zijn in de bestrijding van blaasontstekingen in combinatie met antibiotica. In de blaaswand zitten enige “zakjes” waarin de bacteriën zich kunnen verstoppen zodat ze niet in aanraking komen met de antibiotica. Forskolin blijkt nu zorgt ervoor dat de bacteriën uit de zakjes verdreven worden en de antibiotica wel zijn werk goed kan doen.
Herbal
Extract, Forskolin, May Help Combat Bladder Infections
An
herbal extract, forskolin, which is currently sold as an aid for allergy or fat
loss treatment, may be beneficial for patients with bladder infections when
taken in combination with antibiotics, say researchers from Duke, University,
USA.
You can read about this new researcher in the journal Nature Medicine.
The majority of infections of the bladder are caused by Escherichia coli
(E. coli). Women are much more susceptible to bladder infections than men
- in fact, bladder infections can come back again and again.
The lining of the bladder has some small pouches. It is in these very pouches
that E. coli hides and avoids contact with antibiotics. The researchers
found that forskolin moves the E. coli out of the pouches so that the
antibiotics can destroy them. The scientists said that the combination of
antibiotics with forskolin may prove an extremely effective treatment for
urinary tract infection.
Urinary tract infection requires rapid treatment to prevent the infection from
reaching the kidneys.
The researchers say they now plan to carry out further studies with larger
animals. Should further animals studies go according to plan, they believe it
will not be long before human clinical trials can take place.
"Cyclic AMP - regulated exocytosis of Escherichia coli from infected
bladder epithelial cells"
Brian L Bishop, Mathew J Duncan, Jeongmin Song, Guojie Li, David Zaas &
Soman N Abraham
Nature Medicine - doi:10.1038/nm1572
(Mei 2007)
(Opm. Meer over blaasontsteking
en forskolin.)