Figure 2.

Perhaps stimulated by the relatively high levels of resveratrol in plants used in Chinese traditional medicine,^104–106 and in red wine, studies of resveratrol appeared in the peer-reviewed literature in the late 1980s and interest has grown rapidly since. At the time of writing, the total of papers in the PubMed database in which “resveratrol” appeared in the title or abstract was 8800. Of these, in 23% the title or abstract included “cancer” and in 1.7% included “neuroprotection.”