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Capsaicin from chili (Capsicum spp.) inhibits vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4yk]

Rongxia Liu, Elke H. Heiss, Dean Guo, Verena M. Dirsch, Atanas G. Atanasov

This short research note shows in vitro data showing that capsaicin from chili peppers inhibits vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation. This suggests that it could be used as early treatment in cardiovascular disease, but further research into the mechanism needs to be carried out.

Other newly indexed articles

Slow progression of exudative age related macular degeneration associated with hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4or]

Jeffrey Stern, David Eveleth, Jennifer Masula, Sally Temple

Diversity of two-component systems: insights into the signal transduction mechanism by the Staphylococcus aureus two-component system GraSR [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4qf]

Uzma Muzamal, Daniel Gomez, Fenika Kapadia, Dasantila Golemi-Kotra

An object oriented implementation of the Yeadon human inertia model [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4cr]

Christopher Dembia, Jason K. Moore, Mont Hubbard