Avemar (Wheat germ extract) in Cancer Prevention and Treatment
A. Telekes, C. H. Chae, K. Vékey, M. Hegedűs
Nutrition and Cancer, 2009
Abstract
Many healthy foods are derived from wheat germ. The molecular composition of these products, however, greatly differs as shown by normal-phase HPLC-mass spectrometry analysis; thus, experimental data obtained by one of them is not necessarily true for the other. Avemar is a nontoxic wheat germ extract registered as a special nutriment for cancer patients in Hungary. It shows potent anticancer activity on cell lines by deeply interfering with glucose metabolism and affecting expressions of several kinases. I (»)