Das berichtet eine neue Studie, die in der Zeitschrift Epilepsy & Behavior veröffentlicht wurde. Frühere Forschungen haben ergeben, dass CBD die Anzahl der Anfälle bei Patienten mit Epilepsie reduzieren kann. Aber die potenziellen kognitiven Nebenwirkungen einer Langzeiteinnahme von CBD waren in pädiatrischen Populationen noch nicht untersucht worden. „Dieses Thema war für mich interessant, weil es…
Autor: Thomas Friese
Protective Effects of Cannabidiol on Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
The present study investigated the effects of cannabidiol intradiscal injection in the coccygeal intervertebral disc degeneration induced by the needle puncture model using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and histological analyses. Cannabidiol significantly attenuated the effects of disc injury induced by the needle puncture. Considering that cannabidiol presents an extremely safe profile and is currently being…
Epilepsy and cannabidiol
… a guide to treatment. Das wachsende Interesse an Cannabidiol (CBD), insbesondere einer reinen Form der CBD, als Behandlung von Epilepsie und anderen Erkrankungen spiegelt sich in den jüngsten Änderungen der Gesetzgebung in einigen Ländern wider. … Die Wirkungen der Produkte hängen im Wesentlichen von der Reinheit, Zubereitung und Konzentration von CBD und anderer Komponenten ab,…
Appraising the „entourage effect“: Antitumor action / Breast Cancer
Antitumor action of a pure cannabinoid versus a botanical drug preparation in preclinical models of breast cancer. (Nov 2018) Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death among women. Although early diagnosis and development of new treatments have improved their prognosis, many patients present innate or acquired resistance to current therapies. New therapeutic approaches…
Ideal drug to treat non-motor Parkinson’s disease symptoms?
Is cannabidiol the ideal drug to treat non-motor Parkinson’s disease symptoms? (Feb 2019) In the present text, we review the clinical studies of cannabinoids in PD and the preclinical and clinical studies specifically on CBD. We found four randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving the administration of agonists/antagonists of the cannabinoid 1 receptor, showing that these…
Effects on Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms
Effects of CBD-Enriched Cannabis sativa Extract on Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms: An Observational Study of 18 Participants Undergoing Compassionate Use. (Oct 2019) We report an observational study with a cohort of 18 autistic patients undergoing treatment with compassionate use of standardized CBD-enriched CE (with a CBD to THC ratio of 75/1). Among the 15 patients…
Cannabidiol: a new light for schizophrenia?
(Department CNS Diseases Research, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. K., Biberach an der Riss, Germany.) Evidence suggests that CBD can ameliorate positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Behavioural and neurochemical models suggest that CBD has a pharmacological profile similar to that of atypical anti-psychotic drugs and a clinical trial reported that this cannabinoid is…
Cannabidiol rather than Cannabis sativa extracts
Cannabidiol rather than Cannabis sativa extracts inhibit cell growth and induce apoptosis in cervical cancer cells Cannabidiol rather than Cannabis sativa extracts inhibit cell growth and induce apoptosis in cervical cancer cells Results obtained indicate that both cannabidiol and Cannabis sativa extracts were able to halt cell proliferation in all cell lines at varying concentrations….
Inhibition of colon carcinogenesis
Inhibition of colon carcinogenesis by a standardized Cannabis sativa extract with high content of cannabidiol. PURPOSE: Colon cancer is a major public health problem. Cannabis-based medicines are useful adjunctive treatments in cancer patients. Here, we have investigated the effect of a standardized Cannabis sativa extract with high content of cannabidiol (CBD), here named CBD BDS,…
Antitumor Effects of Cannabidiol
Antitumor Effects of Cannabidiol, a Nonpsychoactive Cannabinoid, on Human Glioma Cell Lines Recently, cannabinoids (CBs) have been shown to possess antitumor properties. Because the psychoactivity of cannabinoid compounds limits their medicinal usage, we undertook the present study to evaluate the in vitro antiproliferative ability of cannabidiol (CBD), a nonpsychoactive cannabinoid compound, on U87 and U373…