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ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2017

Plants-Derived Neuroprotective Agents: Cutting the Cycle of Cell Death through Multiple Mechanisms.

Taiwo Olayemi Elufioye, Tomayo Ireti Berida, Solomon Habtemariam

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Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Multi-Target Neuroprotective Effects of Flavonoid-RichInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  7. Effects of Elicitation onPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  11. GenusInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  14. The Neurotherapeutic Arsenal inMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  19. Neuroprotective potential ofFrontiers in pharmacology · 2023
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3 authors.

Taiwo Olayemi ElufioyeDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Tomayo Ireti BeridaDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Solomon HabtemariamPharmacognosy Research Laboratories and Herbal Analysis Services, University of Greenwich, Chatham-Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6743-2244

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroprotection is the preservation of the structure and function of neurons from insults arising from cellular injuries induced by a variety of agents or neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). The various NDs including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's diseases as well as amyotropic lateral sclerosis affect millions of people around the world with the main risk factor being advancing age. Each of these diseases affects specific neurons and/or regions in the brain and involves characteristic pathological and molecular features. Hence, several in vitro and in vivo study models specific to each disease have been employed to study NDs with the aim of understanding their underlying mechanisms and identifying new therapeutic strategies. Of the most prevalent drug development efforts employed in the past few decades, mechanisms implicated in the accumulation of protein-based deposits, oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and certain neurotransmitter deficits such as acetylcholine and dopamine have been scrutinized in great detail. In this review, we presented classical examples of plant-derived neuroprotective agents by highlighting their structural class and specific mechanisms of action. Many of these natural products that have shown therapeutic efficacies appear to be working through the above-mentioned key multiple mechanisms of action.

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