Ma’am, Your Little Dragon Cub is Four and a Half Years Old

  Chapter 55 Si Mingjing: Tricking You Without Discussing 2

  Si Mingjing mentioned a natural tumor drug extracted from yew, that is paclitaxel.

  Everyone knows that cancer cells are different from normal cells in that they have the characteristics of unlimited proliferation.

Paclitaxel can promote the polymerization of tubulin and prevent the depolymerization of microtubules, which will cause cells to be stuck in the process of division, making it impossible for cancer cells to proliferate indefinitely, so that cells will undergo apoptosis, thereby achieving anti-cancer effects .

   "Is it really that powerful?"

  Ordinary guests, you can hear clearly.

  I thought that if cancer cells could be prevented from dividing infinitely, wouldn’t it be possible to cure cancer?

   That would be great!

  No one can guarantee that they will not get cancer in the future, especially when they are old. If a cure for cancer can be found, it will be a blessing for mankind.

  But the people who were studying medicine were indifferent, not surprised at all, but laughed instead.

Xiao Chen smiled unabashedly: "Miss Si, don't you know that as early as 1963, Vani and Wall extracted paclitaxel from a short-leaved redwood fir, which has been recognized by the medical circles of all countries as the best drug so far? Natural anti-cancer drugs, paclitaxel and its derivatives have long been the first-line drugs for tumor chemotherapy?"

   What kind of breakthrough is this?

Other doctors also said: "Yes, everyone knows that paclitaxel and its derivative drugs are useful in treating cancer, but paclitaxel has a wide range of clinical side effects. When chemotherapy is used, the tumor may shrink, but the vitality of the human body is also inevitable. It will shrink, and often shrink faster than the tumor, causing most cancer patients to die of chemotherapy, which is the biggest dilemma of cancer chemotherapy today."

  The term paclitaxel may be unfamiliar to ordinary guests, but it is nothing unusual to doctors.

  Because paclitaxel is the first-line drug for cancer chemotherapy.

  However, paclitaxel also has a wide range of toxic and side effects, and people often die while killing cancer cells.

  They thought that Miss Si was going to trigger a medical revolution similar to antibiotics, but in the end, huh...

   Sure enough, the ignorant are fearless.

   Just when all the medical colleagues disagreed, Si Mingjing suddenly threw out a sentence: "My master discovered a natural extract substitute with similar effects to paclitaxel. It was found in clinical medicine that it is natural and non-toxic."

   Whoo!

  The fall of this remark is no less than dropping a heavy bomb among the guests in the medical field.

   Xiao Chen, who didn't take it seriously a second ago, suddenly held his breath: "It's really natural and non-toxic? What is that?"

Si Mingjing said leisurely: "This extract is similar to paclitaxel, but it does not have the overbearing side effects of paclitaxel. It is not extracted from plants, but from the horns of Tibetan antelopes. My master named it For, animal paclitaxel."

  Si Mingjing's voice fell, and the hearts of all the doctors present were boiling: "Is it true?"

   "Tibetan antelope? That is an endangered species of protected animals, and the horns of the Tibetan antelope are even rarer."

   "It doesn't matter if it is rare. If it is really possible to extract non-toxic paclitaxel from the horns of Tibetan antelopes to benefit mankind, Tibetan antelopes will be raised in large numbers in the future, just like people raise sheep and goats..."

However, when everyone was discussing in full swing, Song Pianlan suddenly said: "Si Mingjing, how dare you say that you don't want to take over Grandpa's research results and extract the natural and non-toxic animal paclitaxel from the horns of Tibetan antelopes?" , it was obviously discovered by grandpa after exhausting his whole life!"

  (end of this chapter)