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http://nccam.nih.gov/training/centers/descriptions.htm#metabolicsyndrome

Address:
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Division of Nutrition & Chronic Disease
6400 Perkins Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
URL: brc.pbrc.edu/

Description: This center aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation of specific, compelling hypotheses about the molecular, cellular, and physiological mechanisms by which botanicals (e.g., Artemisia, St. John's wort) may reduce the chance of developing conditions that often lead to metabolic syndrome and of developing metabolic syndrome itself. Metabolic syndrome, a grouping of risk factors that may develop into diabetes and heart disease, has been this center's focus since 2005.

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Botanical Dietary Supplements for Women's Health

Principal Investigator: Norman Farnsworth, Ph.D.
Institution: University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Address:
University of Illinois at Chicago
310 AOB, M/C 672
1737 West Polk Street
CHICAGO, IL 60612

Description: This center focuses on the safety of botanical dietary supplements that are widely available and used by women (e.g., black cohosh, licorice). The investigators will study the synergy of multi-component mixtures and the mechanisms of action, metabolism and pharmacokinetics, interactions with prescription drugs, and the impact of botanicals on endogenous estrogenic hormones.

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Botanical Estrogens: Mechanisms, Dose and Target Tissues

Principal Investigator: William Helferich, Ph.D.
Institution: University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

Address:
Office of Sponsored Programs & Research Admin 1901 S. First Street, Suite A, MC-685 Champaign, Il 61820-7406

This center will address the safety, efficacy, and mechanism of action of botanical estrogens (e.g., wild yam, soy, dong quai) consumed by women. The center's projects will look at the biological effects of botanical estrogens on molecular mechanisms and cellular pathways, as well as their actions on bone, uterus, breast tissue, breast cancer metastasis, and cognition.

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CAM as Countermeasures Against Infectious and Inflammatory Disease

Principal Investigator: Mark A. Jutila, Ph.D.

Address:
Montana State University, Bozeman
309 Montana Hall
Bozeman, MT 59717

This center will study biologically based CAM therapies and their effects on immune system function in infectious and inflammatory diseases. One project focuses on effects of botanical extracts—from apple polyphenols, which are concentrated in apple skins, and from yamoa, which comes from the bark of an African gum tree—on white blood cells, using models of infection and inflammation of the intestinal mucosa. A second project examines two compounds in licorice root—glycyrrhizin and 18-glyrrhetinic acid—for their potential antiviral effects in models of influenza and small intestine infection. A third project will focus on bacterial products to see how they treat autoimmune diseases, like arthritis, which may also help build understanding of probiotics' action.