Fermented wheat germ extract (FWGE) is currently used as nutrition supplement for cancer patients. Limited recent data suggest antiproliferative, antimetastatic and immunological effects which were at least in part exerted by two quinones, 2-methoxy benzoquinone and 2,6-dimethoxybenzquinone as ingredients of FWGE. These activity data prompted us to further evaluate the in vitro antiproliferativ...

ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES DOI: 10.1089/act.2012.18401 • MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC. • VOL. 18 NO. 4 AUGUST 2012 Over the years, I have read about dozens of alternative treatments that have been promoted for controlling or reversing cancer, including, but by no means limited to, laetrile, macrobiotics, Hoxsey, Gerson, and Krebiozen. While conventional treatments (surgery, chemotherapy, ...

The biochemical effects of ethylacetate extract of wheat (Avemar) on some serum and liver enzymes were evaluated in T. brucei infected rats. The results show significant increase in specific activities of serum aspartate transaminase (AST) in infected untreated rats when compared with infected treated rats. However, there were no significant difference in serum and liver alanine transaminase (A...

Avemar (MSC) is a nontoxic fermented wheat germ extract demonstrated to have antitumor effects. Avemar has the potential to significantly improve the survival rate in patients suffering from malignant colon tumors. We studied its effects in the HT-29 human colon carcinoma cell line. Avemar had an inhibiting effect on colonies of HT-29 cells with an IC50 value of 118 microg/ml (7 days of incubat...

PURPOSE An open-label, matched-pair (by diagnosis, stage of disease, age, and gender) pilot clinical trial was conducted to test whether the combined administration of the medical nutriment MSC (Avemar) with cytotoxic drugs and the continued administration of MSC on its own help to reduce the incidence of treatment-related febrile neutropenia in children with solid cancers compared with the sam...

Abstract In this study, nano and fermented-nano powders of wheat rice by-products were prepared by superfine grinding raw solid-state fermented materials. Effects fermentation on phytochemical content, phenolic acids profile as well antioxidant anticancer activity investigated. The results revealed that, contents bran (FNWB), germ (FNWG) (FNRB) increased 40.5, 59.2 27.9%, respectively compared ...