Scorpion's venom cure brain cancer

According to a new US study, poison from a Middle Eastern scorpion, Latin name Leiurus quinquestriatus, has been developed into a drug that injects the brain of a patient with brain cancer.

During the study, scientists from Transmolecular Pharmaceutical Research Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, injected this kind of scorpion into 59 people with end-stage brain cancer, which is about to die because The tumors in the brain have been inundated that cannot be cured with drugs or any other existing method, and the remaining time of the patients in this condition is very little, it can be said to count each day.

Proteins in this venom make it hard for "hard" cancer cells to continue to function.

The results showed that all patients with this brain cancer died, however, patients who were injected into the brain a larger amount of scorpion poisoning than others, prolonged life by 3 months more than the other patients.

Normally, in the venom of a scorpion there is a poison that paralyzes the nervous system of a person who is bitten by scorpions. But in addition to the toxin, the researchers also found the protein in the venom that is able to stick to cancer cells in the brain and make these cells "hard" fins. can continue to work. That's why this toxin is thought to reduce the growth of tumors in the brain.

The results show that brain tumors appear to be shrinking. Dr. Michael Egan of the Transmolecular research group said that it was due to the special effect of the protein that just found the scorpion's venom. Therefore, the researchers used radioactive isotop to see the effects of scorpion toxins causing brain cancer cells to be destroyed.

This may be a surprising source of medicine for patients with tumors in the brain. Practically the venom of the scorpion Leiurus quinquestriatus is a new hope of the research team.

In the past, the University of Chicago, USA, conducted a direct injection of scorpion poison into the blood of patients with cancer with multiple tumors in the body. The goal is to see if this new type of scorpion toxin kills cancer cells in tumors in a patient's body.