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Sulforaphane, a compound found in broccoli and broccoli sprouts, kills the bacterium known to cause ulcers and stomach cancer, according to laboratory research from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the French National Scientific Research Center. The findings appear in the May 21 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and were reported by the .
Jed Fahey, MS, a plant physiologist in the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is the study's lead author. He is also affiliated with the at the Johns ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½. Patrick Dolan, BS, and from the at the Johns ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½, also contributed to the study.
Other authors of the report include Alain Lozniewski, Xavier Haristoy, and Isabelle Scholtus of the French National Scientific Research Center. Katherine Stephenson and Paul Talalay, MD, are with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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