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WebMD: Marijuana Chemical May Fight Brain Cancer

Source: Uinta County News

Madrid : Spain | 8 months ago

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Guillermo Velasco and colleagues at Complutense University in Spain have found that the active ingredient in marijuana, THC, causes brain cancer cells to undergo a process called autophagy. Autophagy is the breakdown of a cell that occurs when the cell essentially self-digests.

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