Extracts and Essential Oils from Medicinal Plants and Their Neuroprotective Effect
| Autor: | Elaine Cristina Gurgel Andrade Pedrosa, Ana Paula de Carvalho Bezerra, Marco Aurelio M. Freire, Dayane Pessoa de Araújo, Irami Araújo Filho, Luciana Cristina Borges Fernandes, Fausto Pierdoná Guzen, José Rodolfo Lopes de Paiva Cavalcanti, Amália Cínthia Meneses Rêgo, Ianara Mendonça da Costa, Francisco Irochima Pinheiro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0303 health sciences
03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Traditional medicine InformationSystems_INFORMATIONSTORAGEANDRETRIEVAL Biology Medicinal plants GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g. dictionaries encyclopedias glossaries) Neuroprotection 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 030304 developmental biology |
| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.90903 |
| Popis: | Current therapies for neurodegenerative diseases offer only limited benefits to their clinical symptoms and do not prevent the degeneration of neuronal cells. Neurological diseases affect millions of people around the world, and the economic impact of treatment is high, given that health care resources are scarce. Thus, many therapeutic strategies to delay or prevent neurodegeneration have been the subject of research for treatment. One strategy for this is the use of herbal and essential oils of different species of medicinal plants because they have several bioactive compounds and phytochemicals with neuroprotective capacity. In addition, they respond positively to neurological disorders, such as dementia, oxidative stress, anxiety, cerebral ischemia, and oxidative toxicity, suggesting their use as complementary treatment agents in the treatment of neurological disorders. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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