Chemistry and pharmacy closer to nature. How to prolong healthy life with natural compounds?
Journal Title: CHEMIK nauka-technika-rynek - Year 2010, Vol 64, Issue 4
Abstract
Modern medicine (especially personalised and nutritional approach) focuses more attention on the diet, life style and the environment. Scientists have to examine more closely what we are eating, how diseases can be treated more rationally, and how we can more effectively use our natural resources. The pharmaceutical industry is searching for new medical plants, the functional compounds of which can serve as a starting point for the development of new drugs. Health-beneficial and life-prolonging effects of polyphenols are accompanied by the stimulation of various maintenance mechanisms, including protection against free-radical and oxidation-induced damage. These natural compounds are promising anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial and anticancer agents. The representatives of polyphenols: resveratrol, epigallocatechin-gallate, curcumin, proanthocyanidin, chlorogenic acid and rosemarinic acid, betalain, anthocyans are characterised as potential candidates for drugs. This review provides some information and serves to encourage work (chemical synthesis) in the field of flavonoids.
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Iwona Wawer
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