Hepatoprotective Agents from Natural Resource
A special issue of Medicines (ISSN 2305-6320).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2019) | Viewed by 4123
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The liver is a vital organ that assumes multiple biological functions: Digestive by bile production, protective by coagulation enzymes production, metabolic by cholesterol regulation, glucose, vitamins, mineral storage, and self-regeneration. Moreover, through hepatic blood circulation, it also acts as an internal sensor of our environment, receiving exogenous toxics, migrating cancer cells, parasitic, and viral pathogens (viral hepatitis, flatworm and malaria infections).
Liver deregulation can be extremely symptomatic and painful. It is considered as a major organ that should be cured in diverse traditional medicines: Chinese, Ayurveda, African, South American medicines, etc., using hepatoprotective remedies, which are more often local plant decoctions. These plants or plant mixtures are, for example, taken for decreasing the toxic effect of other plant remedies, eliminate viral hepatitis or liver cancer or for abrogating characteristic symptoms, such as jaundice, belly pains and general weakness.
In laboratories, numerous and diverse assays are being performed to validate the hepatoprotective activity of natural remedies. The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish original research work related to hepatoprotective agents from natural resource: Who are they? How are they scientifically assessed? This may include a possible emphasis on original animal, cellular and molecular models.
Dr. Maelle Carraz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- liver
- hepatoprotective agents
- medicinal plants
- liver infections
- liver cancer
