TED精选演讲 | 白藜芦抑制血管增生预防癌症
摘要： 白藜芦醇（Resveratrol）是一种天然多酚化合物，研究表明其可通过抑制异常血管新生（angiogenesis）过程，干扰肿瘤生长所需的血液供应，从而在癌症预防和治疗中发挥潜在作用。
- 血管新生（angiogenesis）是多种重大疾病（包括癌症、糖尿病、阿尔茨海默病等）的共同病理基础。
- 白藜芦醇通过调控血管新生，可能抑制肿瘤获取营养和氧气的能力，从而限制其生长与扩散。
- William Li 提出，调节血管新生平衡是21世纪医学革命的关键方向之一，有望影响全球十亿人的健康。
- 已有30余种基于血管新生调控的疗法被开发，惠及超过5000万人，涵盖癌症、失明和伤口愈合等领域。
小白老师说：Imagine that one medical advancement held the promise to conquer cancer, perhaps within your lifetime …According to the speaker William Li, the potential to also end more than 70 of life’s most threatening conditions, affecting one billion people worldwide. Maybe this is the promise of angiogenesis, the first medical revolution of the 21st century.
演讲关键词
- Resveratrol 白藜芦
- angiogenesis 血管新生
- cancer 癌症
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About the Speaker William Li
Will is Chief Executive Officer, President, and Medical Director of the Angiogenesis Foundation, a nonprofit organization he co-founded in 1994 to re-conceptualize health and fighting disease through angiogenesis, the process used by the body to grow and maintain blood vessels. Over two decades, Will’s work has brought to the world 30 paradigm-shifting treatments for cancer, blindness, and wound healing, impacting on more then 50 million people worldwide.▼
Why you should listen
Many of society’s most devastating diseases – cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s, to name a few – share a common denominator: faulty angiogenesis, the body’s growth of new capillary blood vessels. Given excessive or insufficient blood vessel growth, serious health issues arise. While researching under Harvard surgeon Judah Folkman, who pioneered the study of angiogenesis, Li learned how angiogenesis-based medicine helps patients overcome numerous diseases by restoring the balance of blood-vessel growth.
常见问题
白藜芦醇如何帮助预防癌症？
白藜芦醇通过抑制异常的血管新生过程，切断肿瘤生长所需的血液供应，从而限制癌细胞的增殖和转移。
什么是血管新生（angiogenesis）？
血管新生是人体生成新毛细血管的过程，在正常生理中用于修复和生长，但过度或不足都会导致疾病，如癌症、糖尿病视网膜病变等。
William Li 在血管新生研究中的贡献是什么？
作为血管新生基金会创始人，他推动了30多种基于血管新生调控的疗法，应用于癌症、失明和慢性伤口等领域，影响超5000万人。