Few people consider wasps as beneficial insects. In the summer they appear, mainly in hot weather. Wasps cannot fly past the sweet. They sting very painfully. If an adult is bitten by a wasp, then it may have an allergic reaction. But there is one very positive effect from them. The venom of some wasps has a strong anti-cancer effect. This property contains the poison of a Brazilian wasp. Scientists have figured out how to develop a cure for incurable cancer.
Healing poison
The poison of the Brazilian wasp may soon become a new medicine in the fight against cancer. More recently, it was found out that the poison of these wasps has such a healing property. They live only in Brazil. The bottom line is that the poison does not have a toxic effect on all affected areas.
Polybia Paulista wasp venom contains the Polybia-MP1 peptide. It acts on some parts of the body affected by a malignant neoplasm. First of all, these are prostate cancer cells, leukemia, a malignant tumor of the bladder. These malignant neoplasms are very resistant to many medicinal products.
Brazilian wasp
The Brazilian wasp or polystyne belongs to the subfamily of public, or paper wasps. Wasps of the genus Polybia have a very complex behavior. They build very multifaceted honeycombs with countless exits. Working wasps live in the honeycombs. They are founded by one and only female. They inhabit the tropical part of South America. They live in Brazil. The poison of the Brazilian wasp helps to suppress malignant neoplasms.
Poison action
Scientists from the University of Leeds, which is located in the UK, have long learned that the wasp peptide can destroy a malignant tumor. Therefore, they engaged in an in-depth study of the poison of the Brazilian wasp. Paul Beals and some other British scientists understood why such an amazing reaction to wasp poison appears. Peptide peptides MP1 interacts well with lipids - fatty acids that supply cells with energy and form the membranes of healthy cells. The venom of the Brazilian wasp kills cancer cells by hitting the upper membrane and forming cuts in it, through which tumor cells can interact with healthy ones and be supplied with oxygen. In this case, an ordinary healthy cell does no harm. The difference is that in a healthy cell the inner layer consists of phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine, and in the cell affected by a cancerous tumor it acts as an outer layer.
New cure
The magnitude of the opening of the pores that are formed as a result of exposure to the poison of the Brazilian wasp is very small. But this is enough for RNA molecules and proteins to go beyond the outer layer of the cancer cell.
In the British journal Biophysical Journal, an article is published on the subject of "Medicine from the poison of a Brazilian wasp", which was published by Paul Beals. In it, he describes in detail how wasp venom kills cancer cells. According to scientists, a deep study of its composition will allow the widespread use of drugs from poison in medicine for cancer.
Verified by experience
To test their assumptions, scientists conducted pilot studies. To do this, they developed a cell membrane model containing phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine. The membrane was exposed to the peptide MP1. Then they began to observe the effect. Experienced scientists saw that the presence of the phosphatidylserine component helps the Brazilian wasp venom to act on the cell membrane, and the combination of the phosphatidylethanolamine component with the wasp venom destroys the upper layer of the cell membrane and makes small microcracks in it. Through such micropores, the affected cell begins to function normally.
Alternative method
In the near future, scientific developers plan to study in detail the effect of the wasp venom peptide on a cancerous cell membrane. They want to repeatedly enhance this healing effect. Create a powerful cure for cancer of the wasp of Brazilian wasp and a new form of safe anticancer drugs. This will be of great benefit to patients suffering from cancer.
An alternative method of high-quality treatment in the fight against cancerous tumors will be an excellent addition to such methods as radio and chemotherapy, which kill not only cancer-affected areas, but also completely healthy cells.