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The human body produces antibiotics
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
A team of American specialists found antibiotics in the human body, and they are quite powerful in their strength. In the course of the research, an analysis was made of the microflora of the human intestine, as well as of bacteria that live on the skin. As a result, scientists were able to identify antibiotics, which were called gumimycin A and B, according to scientists, they do not work as usual antibacterial drugs, but as "amplifiers", i.e. Increase the effect of drugs.
Studies were conducted at the Rockefeller University by a team of scientists led by Sean Brady. The experts managed to find a way of faster and cheaper production of antibiotics. As is known, now the scientific community is actively solving the problem of antibacterial resistance, the bacteria have developed the ability to quickly develop resistance to antibiotics and scientists have to constantly develop new types of drugs, otherwise, humanity will remain unprotected before bacteria and the level of medicine will return a couple of centuries ago, when even angina can be fatal. It is worth noting that the constant search for new antibiotics is quite expensive, since a considerable amount of money is spent on research (from 800 million to 1 billion dollars), and after a while it is necessary to start again all over again, as the bacteria learned to develop resistance fairly quickly.
The antibiotics found in the human body are active against "super bacteria" and Sean Brady and his colleagues have developed a method that allows the process of producing new antibiotics to be made faster and cheaper. Scientists have created a unique technique for virtual gene analysis, which helps to identify microbes in DNA that promote the growth of molecules that destroy pathogens in the body.
According to scientists, gumimycin A and B showed high efficacy in the fight against bacteria that developed resistance to modern antibiotics.
Specialists conducted experiments on rodents and found that a group of mice that received antibiotics with gumimycin A and B survived after the administration of a lethal dose of staphylococcus. In total, scientists used 2 groups of mice, one of which was administered modern antibacterial drugs. Studies have shown that dozens of genes are responsible for the synthesis of vital substances for the cell and in the plans of the Brady team to start searching for similar molecules in the DNA of other bacteria and to develop new effective antibiotics.
The human body is unique and contains many more secrets. In addition to antibiotics, our body is able to produce painkillers, which in their actions are an order of magnitude better than morphine. In France, a team of specialists found a special substance in the human saliva, which, as experiments showed, has an analgesic effect 6 times stronger than that of morphine. The new substance was called opiofrin and scientists have already tested it on rodents. The rats were injected with chemicals that caused them severe pain, the introduction of opiofrin completely relieved the animals of the pain, in another group of rats fed with morphine, it took 6 doses of a similar action to the pain completely gone.
While scientists do not know the exact mechanism of the action of the new substance, but studies have shown that it can slow the decay of molecules that are responsible for the reaction of the nervous system to the onset of pain. According to French experts on the basis of opiofrin, it will be possible to develop effective painkillers.