{"id":169835,"date":"2023-08-17T03:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/research-finds-that-molecules-in-vegetables-can-help-to-ease-lung-infection"},"modified":"2023-08-17T03:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:23:38","slug":"research-finds-that-molecules-in-vegetables-can-help-to-ease-lung-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/research-finds-that-molecules-in-vegetables-can-help-to-ease-lung-infection","title":{"rendered":"Research finds that molecules in vegetables can help to ease lung infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-finds-that-molecules-in-vegetables-can-help-to-ease-lung-infection2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that molecules in vegetables like broccoli or cauliflower help to maintain a healthy barrier in the lung and ease infection.<\/p>\n<p>The AHR\u2014aryl hydrocarbon receptor\u2014is a protein found at barrier sites like the gut and the lung. Natural molecules in cruciferous vegetables\u2014for example, kale, cauliflower, broccoli, or cabbage\u2014are dietary \u2018ligands\u2019 for AHR, which means, once eaten, they activate AHR to target a number of genes. Some of the genes targeted switch off the AHR system, allowing it to self-regulate.<\/p>\n<p>The effect of AHR on <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immune+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune cells<\/a> is well understood, but this research, published in <i>Nature<\/i>, now shows that AHR is also highly active in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/endothelial+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">endothelial cells<\/a> lining <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/blood+vessels\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood vessels<\/a> in the lung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that molecules in vegetables like broccoli or cauliflower help to maintain a healthy barrier in the lung and ease infection. The AHR\u2014aryl hydrocarbon receptor\u2014is a protein found at barrier sites like the gut and the lung. Natural molecules in cruciferous vegetables\u2014for example, kale, cauliflower, broccoli, or cabbage\u2014are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}