- This compound, which we find in olive leaves, could be used in the treatment of certain diseases that would progress more slowly
- Oleanolic acid, contained in olive leaves, seems to have a great therapeutic potential for diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
- It’s what emerged from a study of the Instituto de Biologi’a Gene’tica y Molecular (IBGM) of Valladolid, published in British Journal of Pharmacology.
- With this active pathologies seem to progress more slowly. Were used to study animal models with multiple sclerosis and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), disease of the central nervous system.
- “The development of the disease is considerably slower in the animals when they are administered the active ingredient – said Maria Luisa Nieto, the Unidad de Inmunidad Innate and Inflamacio’n of IBGM – and in some cases we were able to significantly reduce and even eliminate all inflammatory processes associated with the disease. “
- Oleanolic acid seems to be able to significantly reduce the clinical signs (muscle control, weight, survival) and immuno-inflammatory disorders (impermeability ‘vascular leukocyte infiltration, presence of cytokines) of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.
