The only animal that resists cancer reveals his formula

The shaving ratopín a rodent from Africa, produces a variant of hyaluronic acid to prevent the formation of tumors. 

This substance is known to be wrinkle.

The shaving ratopín, a rodent of Africa, suffers no tumors through a variant of hyaluronic acid, the same molecule that is already used in anti-wrinkle injections in humans, according to a study published today in Nature.

"This animal is going to teach how to be immune to cancer," says the site matter Andrei Seluanov popular science, a researcher at the University of Rochester (USA) and co-author of the study.

The ratopín shaving is a hairless rodent that lives underground in the savannas of Africa, is organized in colonies like ants, never drink water and, above all, is the only known animal that suffers no cancer.

A small group of researchers from various countries studying this creature can live up to 30 years, an absolute record among rodents, looking for new clues to extend the life of humans.

Resistant. Its resistance to cancer due to a variation of hyaluronic acid, a substance which is already used, for example, to delete the effects of time with injections correcting wrinkles.

The key, they say, is that this substance ratopín much better advantage than other mammals, to the extent possible.

Seluanov viscous isolated this substance isolated in his laboratory. Is a chain of carbon and hydrogen atoms produced by most cells in the body and which helps, among other things, to control the growth of organs to its proper size.

Unlike hyaluronic acid produced by mice and humans, ratopín variant is a much larger chain and long.

"The large size of this molecule is essential to confer protection against cancer," explains Seluanov. 

Until now it was known that viscous substance was responsible for the prodigious ratopín give the elasticity of your skin to crawl through the tunnels.

Now Seluanov shows that the same molecule is also responsible for blocking the development of tumors.

The study shows that removing ratopín hyaluronic acid, the cells begin to divide uncontrollably creating tumors.