OBJECTIVE To investigate the protective effect of extracts prepared from avocado, walnut, flaxseed and Eruca sativa seeds in a rat model of kidney dysfunction induced by intraperitoneal cisplatin. METHODS Ethanol and petroleum ether extracts mixture was prepared from each plant. Six groups of rats were conducted; control healthy, cisplatin group and four test groups where rats were given dail...

Natural medicinal products have been used for millennia for the treatment of several ailments. Although many have been superseded by conventional pharmaceutical approaches, there is currently a resurgence in the interest in natural products by the general public and the use of complementary and alternative medicine is increasing rapidly in developed countries. Also, pharmaceutical industries ar...

The past decade has witnessed intense interest in nutraceuticals in which phytochemical constituents have long-term health promoting or medicinal qualities. Secondary products have a variety of functions in plants; it is likely that their ecological function have some potential medicinal effects for humans. Between 1990 and 2020, deaths from non-communicable diseases and injury are expected to ...

A nutraceutical, a portmanteau of the words "nutrition" and "pharmaceutical", is food or product that provides health therapeutic benefits, including prevention treatment disease. Nutraceuticals are medicinal foods play role in manage wellbeing, enhancing health, modulate immunity thereby preventing as well treating specific illness. Established nutritional functions, such vitamins, minerals, a...

Important dietary components known as nutraceuticals have both therapeutic and nutritional impacts. The active ingredients in these foods, including such carotenoids, collagen hydrolysate, fibers, are what provide them their health benefits. Nutraceuticals been shown to a good impact on immunological cardiovascular health, well play part the prevention of infections cancer. Depending its nature...

Nutraceuticals is a broad term which describes any substance extracted from food sources with additional health benefits along with the basic nutritional value already present in them. They act nonspecifically to promote general well-being of the individuals and also to control and prevent virulent conditions. The term “nutraceutical” combines two words – “nutrient” (a nourishing food component...

In this Special Issue on "Nutraceuticals: Molecular and Functional Insights into how Natural Products Nourish the Brain", the editors bring together contributions from experts in nutraceutical research to provide a contemporary overview of how select chemically identified molecules can beneficially affect brain function at the molecular level. Other contributions address key emergent issues suc...

SCOPE The reported ability to modulate the production of the wild-type transcript in cells bearing the splice-altering familial dysautonomia (FD)-causing mutation in the IKBKAP gene prompted an evaluation of the impact of commonly consumed nutraceuticals on the splicing of this transcript. METHODS AND RESULTS Screening efforts revealed the ability of the isoflavones, genistein, and daidzein, ...