Weekly recap of best under-reported news stories.
Media Island's Weekly News Roundup:
Mother Jones: What killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones?
http://motherjones.com/
Truth Dig: Bitter Memories of ar on the way to jail, by Chris Hedges
http://www.truthdig.com/
Common Dreams: Season of Hardship Connects Struggling Workers in Two Worlds by Michelle Chen
http://www.commondreams.org/
CISPES: A victory! The power of international solidarity.
http://cispes.org/
Alter Net: Vision: Modern Utopians -- Revisiting the Amazing Communes and Alternative Societies of the '60s and '70s, by Richard Fairfield
Reclaim the Media: FCC's net neutrality compromise benefits industry at
expense of small business, tech innovators and minorities.
http://www.reclaimthemedia.
Media with Conscience: Economic chickens coming home to roost, by Ben Tanosborn
http://mwcnews.net/focus/
Narco News: $100 Million Drug-War Garrison Approved for U.S.-Mexican Border, by Bill Conroy
http://narcosphere.narconews.
Venezuela Analysis: Chavez's Lines #100: "The Sermon on the Cerro", by Hugo Chavez,
http://venezuelanalysis.com/
Upside Down World: OAS Diplomat's Words Rattle Haiti’s Occupation Regime, by Roger Annis
http://upsidedownworld.org/
Washington Post: Monitoring America, the newest installment to the mind blowing investigative series Top Secret America.
http://projects.
CEPR: Income, Inequality and Food Prices, December 2010, by Shawn Fremstad
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/
Consortium News: Argentina's Dapper State Terrorist, by Marta Gurvich
http://www.consortiumnews.com/
Monthly Review: Free-Market Feminism, by Johanna Brenner
http://www.monthlyreview.org/
Wikileaks
http://www.wikileaks.ch/
Stop FBI: Solidarity statement from Sacramento Area Peace Action.
http://www.stopfbi.net/2010/
Not Much to Celebrate with Obama's Tax Deal, by Karen Dolan
http://www.ips-dc.org/
Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Resveratrol (KC news)
Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Resveratrol and Oligostilbenes from Vitis thunbergii var. taiwaniana against
Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Arthritis.
Posted:
Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Resveratrol and Oligostilbenes from Vitis thunbergii var. taiwaniana against
Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Arthritis.
J Agric Food Chem. 2011 Mar 10;
Authors: Wang KT, Chen LG, Tseng SH, Huang JS, Hsieh MS, Wang CC
Vitis thunbergii Sieb. and Zucc. var. taiwaniana Lu is an endemic plant in Taiwan used as a dietary supplement for bone
health. In this study, human chondrocytes were induced to produce COX-2, MMP-3, -13, and PGE(2) by LPS. An (18)F-FDG
microPET imaging system was used to evaluate the anti-inflammatory arthritic effects in vivo. Six stilbenes,
resveratrol (1), (+)-?-viniferin (2), ampelopsin C (3), ampelopsin A (4), (-)-vitisin B (5), and (+)-vitisin A (6),
were isolated from the stem part of V. thunbergii, which displayed the strongest PGE(2) inhibition. Among these
compounds, 1 significantly decreased COX-2 activity, PGE(2), MMP-3, and -13 production in vitro, and (18)F-FDG uptake
and serum PGE(2) in rabbits in vivo. Anti-inflammatory effects were enhanced through the combined usage of 1 and other
oligostilbenes. Taken together, the synergistic effects of 1 and oligostilbenes resulted in stem part extracts with
lower 1 content displaying the better anti-inflammatory arthritis effects.
PMID: 21391605 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]