Cuando el Silicio transmuta en oro

  1. Francisco José Sánchez-Muniz 1
  2. María José González-Muñoz 2
  3. Adrián Macho-González 1
  4. Juana Benedí 3
  5. Alba Garcimartín 3
  6. Elvira López-Oliva 4
  7. Jorge A. Santos-López 3
  8. Sara Bastida 1
  1. 1 Departamento de Nutrición y Ciencia de los Alimentos. Facultad de Farmacia. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. España
  2. 2 Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas, Unidad Docente de Toxicología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
  3. 3 Departamento de Farmacología, Farmacognosia y Botánica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  4. 4 Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Journal:
Journal of Negative and No Positive Results: JONNPR

ISSN: 2529-850X

Year of publication: 2020

Volume: 5

Issue: 2

Pages: 202-211

Type: Article

DOI: 10.19230/JONNPR.3342 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

This article describes the virtues of a research focused on silicon, one of the most important but least known  ingredients in beer, and its protective action at the neurodegenerative level. Among the various factors  contributing to the Alzheimer's disease induction and development, aluminum, by concentrating in brain  induces, among other mechanisms, pro-oxidant and inflammatory disorders. Silicon, by blocking these  negative effects, becomes a star ingredient, which in alchemist terms suggests that has the property to  transmute into gold.  

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