https://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs...76021000005249

this may have some benefit for MS as well as cardiac disease. Note the researchers...Creighton University School, one of the few Medical Schools in our nation focused on alternative medicine, quitely doing very interesting work.


Free Radical Research


Activin, a Grape Seed-derived Proanthocyanidin Extract, Reduces Plasma Levels of Oxidative Stress and Adhesion Molecules (ICAM-1, VCAM-1 and E-selectin) in Systemic Sclerosis

2002, Vol. 36, No. 8 , Pages 819-825


Reni Kalfin1, Anna Righi2, Angela Del Rosso2, Debasis Bagchi3, Sergio Generini2, Serena Guiducci2, Marco Matucci Cerinic2 and Dipak K Das1
1Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030-1110, USA
2Department of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
3Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, Omaha, NE, USA

This study evaluated whether a new generation antioxidant Activin derived from the grape seed proanthocyanidins, could reduce the induction of the adhesion molecules as a result of inflammatory response in the plasma of systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients.

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