Comment by Fabrizio Beltrametti
Inflammation has proved to be one of the major risk factors in the development of many chronic diseases including cancer. It is interesting to note that, although in a non-rational way, many remedies of the ethnomedicine are oriented in decreasing the oxidative stress by use of vegetables or their extracts. Science has partially come to a rational by identifying, among the others, polyphenols and flavonoids as the responsible for several health benefits which vegetables exert in the human body. In a world overcrowded with oxidative stress, the consumption of anti-oxidant or, clinically speaking, anti-inflammatory compounds has increased, while science is trying to keep pace with understanding the basis for the healthy effects of plant-derived extracts.
After almost three years of investigation on the immunomodulatory effects of coffee extracts, our TeCSBi PhD candidate Valentina Artusa has beaten all the expectations by having her poster awarded as the best one of the European Chemical Biology Symposium (held in May 26-28, 2021). In her poster, Valentina described, in a high impact quantitative way, the modulation exerted by coffee extract on different markers of the inflammatory response. Getting an in-depth rational for ethnomedicine is one of the challenges of present and future research and we are proud to have Valentina involved in this topic.
Thank you and good luck for your upcoming experiments, Valentina!
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