In cell culture, three odorous garlic compounds - diallyl sulfide, diallyl disulfide and diallyl trisulfide - blocked the migration and invasion of colon cancer cells at 10 and 25 micromoles per liter, and down-regulated genes tied to cell proliferation.
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Garlic oil protects against heart disease in diabetes patients
Hsiu-Chung Ou's team fed diabetic rats garlic oil or corn oil and saw changes in the garlic group that protected against heart damage. The researchers credit garlic oil's antioxidant properties and note it holds as many as 20 potentially beneficial substances.
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Garlic may help fight cancer (Press release)
Ohio State researchers built a urine test that measures both garlic consumption and a marker of the nitrosation process that turns dietary compounds into carcinogens. In a small pilot study, the more garlic people ate, the lower that cancer-risk marker ran.
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