An updated review on therapeutic effects of nanoparticle-based formulations of saffron components (safranal, crocin, and crocetin)
| Autor: | Mirhadi Elaheh, Nassirli Hooriyeh, Malaekeh-Nikouei Bizhan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
food.ingredient
ved/biology.organism_classification_rank.species Crocetin Pharmaceutical Science 02 engineering and technology 010402 general chemistry 01 natural sciences Crocin chemistry.chemical_compound food Crocus sativus Medicine Aphrodisiac Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous) Traditional medicine Carminative business.industry ved/biology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 0104 chemical sciences Safranal chemistry 0210 nano-technology business Emmenagogue Stomachic |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation. 50:47-58 |
| ISSN: | 2093-6214 2093-5552 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s40005-019-00435-1 |
| Popis: | In recent years, nanotechnology has come to help researchers a lot in different fields. Especially in medicine and drug delivery, it presents new methods and technologies to increment levels of drug delivery to tumors and decrement side effects of drugs and molecules. Saffron, the dried stigma of the flower of the Crocus sativus plant, is one of the most widely used types of spice with many therapeutic applications that are related to its components: crocin, crocetin, and safranal. Saffron has been used as antispasmodic, anticatarrhal, eupeptic, nerve sedative, gingival sedative, diaphoretic, expectorant, carminative, stomachic, stimulant, emmenagogue, and aphrodisiac for years and now it has been made clear that it could have antioxidant, antidepressant, and anti-cancer activity. This review discusses how nanotechnology could help improve saffron’s pharmaceutical effects and makes it more functional in treatment. |
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