Nigam, Manisha Mishra, Abhay P Adhikari-Devkota, Anjana Dirar, Amina Ibrahim Hassan, Md Mahadi Adhikari, Achyut Belwal, Tarun Devkota, Hari Prasad
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Fruits of Terminalia chebula Retz. (Combretaceae) are widely used as crude drugs in various traditional medicine systems. The aim of this article is to review the available scientific information regarding the traditional uses, bioactive chemical constituents and the pharmacological activities of T. chebula. Numerous researches conducted on T. cheb...
Keyvani-Ghamsari, Saeedeh Khorsandi, Khatereh Gul, Asma
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Chemotherapy is one of the main methods for cancer treatment. However, despite many advances in the design of anticancer drugs, their efficiency is limited due to their high toxicity and resistance of cells to chemotherapeutic drugs. In order to improve the cancer therapy, it is essential to use the compounds that can overcome drug resistance and i...
Salehi, Mahsa Movahedpour, Ahmad Tayarani, Alireza Shabaninejad, Zahra Pourhanifeh, Mohammad H Mortezapour, Erfan Nickdasti, Ali Mottaghi, Reza Davoodabadi, Abdolhossein Khan, Haroon
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Non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) is one of the most lethal malignancies that include more than 80% of lung cancer cases worldwide. During the past decades, plants and plant-derived products have attracted great interest in the treatment of various human diseases. Curcumin, the turmeric isolated natural phenolic compound, has shown a promising ...
Ziaei, Rahele Foshati, Sahar Hadi, Amir Kermani, Mohamad Ail Hojati Ghavami, Abed Clark, Cain C T Tarrahi, Mohammad Javad
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Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a major health problem, worldwide, that is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Several randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs) have investigated the effect of nettle (Urtica dioica) supplementation on markers of glycemic status in patients with T2DM, with conflicting results. Therefore, the pre...
Salehi, Bahare Butnariu, Monica Corneanu, Mihaela Sarac, Ioan Vlaisavljevic, Sanja Kitic, Dusanka Rahavian, Amirhossein Abedi, Amirreza Karkan, Morteza F Bhatt, Indra D
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Chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) can be triggered by a various types of gynecological, gastrointestinal, urological, and musculoskeletal disorders. Recently, the role of the central nervous system has proven to be an integral part on the development of any chronic pain syndrome, including CPPS. However, owing to the complex and heterogeneous eti...
Islam, Muhammad Torequl Mubarak, Mohammad S
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Dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease, causes about 100 million cases of infection annually. It is a major public concern, and if left untreated or improperly diagnosed, may cause serious health problems or even death. Historically, dengue has not considered priorities for pharmaceutical companies made the available treatment options. Therefore, m...
Sadeghi, Narges Mansoori, Anahita Shayesteh, Aliakbar Hashemi, Seyed Jalal
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Curcumin has anti-inflammatory properties. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of curcumin on improvement of the disease activity in ulcerative colitis (UC). In this randomized double-blind clinical trial, 70 patients with mild-to-moderate UC were randomly assigned to curcumin (1,500 mg/day) or placebo intake for 8 weeks. Disease clini...
Kang, Bean-Bu Chiang, Been-Huang
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Dysregulation of vesicle trafficking in muscle is one of the factors responsible for the pathogenesis of insulin resistance (IR). Ferulic acid (FER) and resveratrol (RSV) are known to have hypoglycemic property. In this study, differentiated L6 myotubes were induced with palmitate as a model of IR. Chemical ablation of muscle vesicles was used to i...
Baziar, Nima Parohan, Mohammad
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a major cause of liver-related morbidity; its prevalence is elevating due to the rising epidemic of obesity. Several clinical trials have examined the effects of curcumin supplementation on anthropometric variables in NAFLD patients with inconclusive results. This dose-response meta-analysis aimed to eval...
Yazdanpanah, Zeinab Azadi-Yazdi, Maryam Hooshmandi, Hadis Ramezani-Jolfaie, Nahid Salehi-Abargouei, Amin
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This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to investigate the effect of cinnamon on body weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-hip ratio (WHR), and body fat mass including the maximum number of studies. Medline, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Cochrane library were searched with no limitation from incept...
