The Healing Properties Of Frog Skin
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 17:30
in Biology & Nature
Cancer, diabetes, stroke and transplant patients can all get benefit from one common thing; frog skin.An international research project is collecting proteins from our amphibian friends (no frogs were harmed in the writing of this article or in the research) and adding to a growing bank of biological data needed to build up our understanding of the naturally occurring medicines in frogs.They have already found that the peptides (mini-proteins) collected from the Waxy Monkey Frog and the Giant Firebellied Toad can be used in a controlled and targeted way to regulate 'angiogenesis', the process by which blood vessels grow in the body. read more