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List of used abbreviations - RosDok - Universität Rostock

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have important medicinal properties such as preventing platelet aggregation or<br />

fighting cancer. They are colourless liquids which have a distinctively pungent smell.<br />

These compounds exhibit antibacterial and anti-fungal properties. 2 The defence<br />

mechanism <strong>of</strong> garlic against attacks by certain diseases is based on Allicin. 3<br />

Chart 1. Structure <strong>of</strong> allicin<br />

Chart 2. Structure <strong>of</strong> ajoene<br />

Scientists have found that ajoene has many properties <strong>of</strong> interest to current medicine.<br />

It functions as an antioxidant, by inhibiting the release <strong>of</strong> superoxide. Ajoene also has<br />

antithrombotic (anti-clotting) properties, which helps to prevent platelets in the blood<br />

from forming blood clots, potentially reducing the risk <strong>of</strong> heart disease and stroke in<br />

humans. Ajoene is also known to have effective broad-spectrum antimicrobial<br />

(antibacterial and antifungal) properties, it is kn own to be helpful in preventing yeast<br />

infection (Candida albicans) and in treating athlete's foot (tinea pedis), for example.<br />

Ajoene has even been shown effective in inhibiting tumor cell growth by targeting the<br />

microtubule cytoskeleton <strong>of</strong> such cells.<br />

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