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Subject:
DIFFERENTIAL BEHAVIOUR OF COX-2 GENES AS ACCORDING TO BODY LOCATION
Category: Health > Conditions and Diseases Asked by: ngang-ga List Price: $10.00 |
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18 May 2003 17:24 PDT
Expires: 17 Jun 2003 17:24 PDT Question ID: 205600 |
COX-2 enzymes are normally found in the immune cells (eg. neutrophils, macrophages, immuno-globulins, T-cells, Natural-Killer cells, etc.) & inflammatory cells (eg. mast cells, platelets, etc). BUT they also exist in the kidneys, and are induced by low-sodium levels or sodium-loss (as in Addison's Disease) and/or the use of ACE-inhibitors, as by hypertensives. Do the natural COX-2 inhibitors, as found in in plant & herbal sources like Vits. E & C, flavonoids, bromelain, ginger, salicylates, curcumin, resveratrol, genistein, kaempferol, quercetin, rescorcinol, boswellia, & Devil's Claw REDUCE RENAL FUNCTION(S)by inhibiting the COX-2 enzymes that exist in the kidneys, or are these COX-2 enzymes specific to the kidneys impervious or insensitive to these inhibitors? |
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Re: DIFFERENTIAL BEHAVIOUR OF COX-2 GENES AS ACCORDING TO BODY LOCATION
From: magnesium-ga on 18 May 2003 18:44 PDT |
You may want to raise your price. You're asking for a great deal here, and a $5 fee isn't likely to attract the medically-savvy professional researchers. |
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Re: DIFFERENTIAL BEHAVIOUR OF COX-2 GENES AS ACCORDING TO BODY LOCATION
From: synarchy-ga on 19 May 2003 17:27 PDT |
Any drug which inhibits cox-2 in the inflammatory cells will also inhibit it in the kidney, thus raising the spectre of renal failure. This is also true for the mixed cox-1/cox-2 inhibitors such as aspirin (or willow bark for that matter), ibuprofen, naproxen, etc... I was unable to find any specific studies on the substances that you mention with regard to cox-2/renal failure. synarchy |
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Re: DIFFERENTIAL BEHAVIOUR OF COX-2 GENES AS ACCORDING TO BODY LOCATION
From: ngang-ga on 19 May 2003 22:10 PDT |
Patients with the problems I mentioned (Addison's Disease, Na-loss or salt-restricted diet or ACE-inhibitors) are routinely warned not to take COX-2 inhibitors, but all those natural sources of COX-2 inhibitors I mentioned are NOT proscribed, & neither do their monographs contain any such caveats or restrictions. If anything, hypertensives on low-Na diets do quite well on many of these naturally-sourced phyto-compounds. So, why don't their COX-2 inhibitory properties shut down renal functions? I'm not after educated guesses here, but some hard evidence (preferably in the form of radomised-placebo-controlled clinical trial data) as to whether anyone has found them to be harmful to the kidneys of people in this sub-category. [As for broad-spectrum, non-specific COX-1&2 inhibition, we already know WHATEVER the circumstances, they are highly gastro-duodeno-toxic & renal-compromising (COX-1 MAKES PGE2 which regulates renal perfusion and gastro-dudeno mucosal maintenance)]. I'll up the ante to 20 bucks if anyone has the right answer for me. |
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