Biological activities of the natural antioxidant oleuropein: Exceeding the expectation – A mini-review
| Autor: | Hervé Casabianca, Karim Hosni, Imed E. Hassen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Oleuropein
Nutrition and Dietetics Antioxidant biology Traditional medicine Nutrition. Foods and food supply medicine.medical_treatment Biological activities Medicine (miscellaneous) Functional food ingredient biology.organism_classification Mini review chemistry.chemical_compound Biophenol Biochemistry chemistry Oleaceae medicine TX341-641 Food Science Olive oil |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Functional Foods, Vol 18, Iss, Pp 926-940 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 1756-4646 |
| Popis: | An emerging body of evidence indicates that oleuropein, a biophenol usually found in olive leaves, extra-virgin olive oil and in some species of the Oleaceae family has potent biological and pharmacological properties. Its main pharmacological activities such as anticancer, cardioprotective, neuroprotective, gastroprotective, hepato-protective, anti-diabetes, anti-obesity and radioprotective, among others, are in large part attributed to its putative antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. This mini-review collects and discusses the scattered data available in the literature concerning oleuropein and/or oleuropein-rich extracts and highlights its chemistry, biosynthesis, biological activities and its possible mechanisms of action. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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