Next generation antidepressants: red wine resveratrol

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

 

Next generation antidepressants: red wine resveratrol

 

Knowledge of Health, Inc., Blog †" April 25, 2006-

 

RED WINE MOLECULES:  ANTIDEPRESSANT EFFECTS DISCOVERED

 

Wine makers often appear to be in a good mood, and researchers in Spain

now indicate why.  Red wine molecules known as resveratrol appear to

work in a similar fashion to commonly used antidepressant

drugs.  Resveratrol exhibits similar biological action to drugs like

Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Tofranil and Celexa.  Well, vintners could

have told the researchers this long ago.  They didn’t need

scientific proof.  Researchers at the University of Santiago de

Compostela in Spain, reporting in the early online edition of

Biochemical Biophysical Research Communications, state that resveratrol

is a mild but “potentially useful molecule in the treatment of

depression.† Their study was conducted in a laboratory

dish, not humans, but resveratrol was tested alongside molecules used to

make commonly used anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs and exhibited

the same characteristics.As a natural enzyme inhibitor, resveratrol

inhibits both monoamine oxidase and 5-hydroxytryptamine, as many

prescribed drugs do today and if resveratrol shows similar behavior in

humans, researchers say “it may have interesting therapeutic

potential for improving the pharmacological treatment of

depression.† Resveratrol pills may become the next

generation’s “happy pills.† 

 

-Copyright 2006 Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc.  

 

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