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THC effects on Tumor Brain Cells, Normal Brain Cells
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THESE VIDEO SEGMENTS TAKE PLACE IN 20 HOURS OF TREATMENT, THIS SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH SECONDS OR MINUTES FROM THE TIME STAMP. REPEAT, 20 HOURS OF TREATMENT.


Tetrahydrocannabinol, also known as THC, Δ9-THC, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), Δ1-tetrahydrocannabinol (using an older numbering scheme), or dronabinol, is the main psychoactive substance found in the Cannabis plant. It was isolated by Raphael Mechoulam, Yechiel Gaoni, and Habib Edery from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel in 1964. In pure form, it is a glassy solid when cold, and becomes viscous and sticky if warmed. An aromatic terpenoid, THC has a very low solubility in water, but good solubility in most organic solvents such as butane or hexane. As is the case with nicotine and caffeine, the role of THC in Cannabis, it seems, is to protect the plant from herbivores. THC also possesses high UV-B (280-315 nm) absorption properties, protecting the plant from harmful radiation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol

This video highlights the effects of THC on human brain cancer cells (also called GBM) and normal brain cells.

The video on the LEFT of the screen is of normal brain cells. The video on the RIGHT of the screen is of brain cancer cells.

This video shows that THC, the active ingredient in Marijuana (ie Cannabis) has a detrimental effect on Brain cancer cells, while having little effect on normal brain cells.

This video is for educational purposes only, and all video segments featured are from the SETH GROUP.

The SETH GROUP's website is www.sethgroup.org or contact them at their email thesethgroup@gmail.com

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  • @ArtypNk THC causes premature apoptosis on C6 Glimo cells among other tumor like cells, partially is thought of the nature of how it deregulates protein passages (tumor cells by nature require a much more ample supply of protein to be sustained, attenuation of protein and IAP-1 RNA is proven to cause cancer treatments to be more effective). There are still some other unknown mechanisms on why this happens which is why it requires further study

  • @idiot866 tumor cells are dangerous as not only their much faster growth but their resistance of going through apoptosis which is a normal cell process that cells undergo, older cells have weaker cell membranes causing them to be more susceptible to free radicals caused by oxidation. THC causes premature apoptosis in both normal and cancer-like cells which is thought to be due to the down regulation of IRA-1 (protein 1)

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  • @ArtypNk  no offense but idiot866 just completely owned you...

  • I was under the impression that CBD was anticarginogenic, not THC?

  • @idiot866 so THC is good for that or bad... sorry but i couldnt quite follow, not all of us are brain physicists or understand what premature apoptosis is. seriously... u may like parading that u have this 'immense' knowledge but u obviously have very bad explanatory skills if u think everyone is going to understand what all that means without everyone having prior knowledge of these substances and activities of the brain, which... guess what... some people dont

  • @TheMick5429 that is awesome man they really need to put more research twoards medical cannabis. anyway, you and every other cancer patient will be in my prayers feel better man

  • I vape my weed using the V-tower, will the THC still have the same effect on cancerous cells even though i'm not cooking it into an oil?

  • ok guys what the hell just happend? the white dots ae the THC?

  • The THC needs to be in a concentrated form such as through consumption or through the more effective oil form for it to have benefits for diseases such as cancer. Don't think your curing cancer by lighting up a joint. Although it is a more desireable method of use.

  • So the tumor cells are completely dead or are they just dormant?

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