The analysis indicated that 48 hours
of chokeberry extract treatment of pancreatic cancer cells induced cell death at 1 ug / ml.
The toxicity
of chokeberry extract on normal blood vessel lining cells was tested and found to have no effects up to the highest levels used (50 ug / ml), suggesting that the cell death effect is happening in a way other than through preventing new blood vessel formation (anti-angiogenesis), a process that is important in cancer cell growth.
Not exact matches
The study used a well - known line
of pancreatic cancer cells (AsPC - 1) in the laboratory and assessed how well this grew when treated with either the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine or different levels
of commercially available
chokeberry extract alone, and when treated with a combination
of gemcitabine and
chokeberry extract.
In a laboratory study published in 2012 in Oncology Reports,
chokeberries caused the death
of malignant brain tumor cells.
Although not as well - known as blueberries and strawberries,
chokeberries — or Aronia melanocarpa — may be the ultimate over-achiever
of the disease - fighting berries.
Examples
of these are the black
chokeberries as well as the maqui berries.
Strawberries, bilberries, lingonberries, and
chokeberries offer a means
of reducing the risk.