Magungunan da ke hana ayyukan furotin na tsarin rigakafi - gamma interferon suna toshe ci gaban melanoma - cutar kansar fata mai haɗari - a cewar masana kimiyyar Amurka a cikin mujallar Nature.
Bayyanawa ga hasken ultraviolet da radiation sune manyan abubuwan da ke haifar da ci gaban melanoma - mafi yawan ciwon daji na fata. Abin takaici, har yanzu ba a fahimci hanyoyin kwayoyin halittar wannan ciwon daji ba.
Glenn Merlino da abokan aiki daga Cibiyar Ciwon daji ta Kasa a Bethesda sunyi nazarin tasirin UVB radiation a cikin mice. Masana kimiyya sun nuna cewa UVB yana haifar da macrophages zuwa cikin fata. Macrophages wani nau'i ne na farin jini, ƙwayoyin da ke samar da interferon gamma, furotin da ke nuna alamar ci gaban melanoma.
Hana ayyukan interferon gamma (watau nau'in interferon II) tare da taimakon ƙwayoyin rigakafin da suka dace suna hana haɓakar ƙwayoyin fata mara kyau da haɓakar ciwon daji, hana ayyukan interferon I ba shi da irin wannan tasirin.
Nau'in I interferon ana gane su azaman sunadaran anti-cancer kuma ɗaya daga cikinsu, interferon alpha, ana amfani da shi don magance melanoma. Gano cewa gamma interferon yana da akasin haka kuma yana haɓaka ci gaban kansa yana da ban mamaki. Hana gamma interferon ko sunadaran da ya shafa ya bayyana a matsayin manufa mai kyau don maganin melanoma. (PAP)