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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2021

Natural Compounds: A Potential Treatment for Alcoholic Liver Disease?

Junbin Yan, Yunmeng Nie, Minmin Luo, Zhiyun Chen, Beihui He

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Junbin YanThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
Yunmeng NieThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
Minmin LuoThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
Zhiyun ChenThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
Beihui HeThe First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
Zhejiang Chinese Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Excessive alcohol intake is a direct cause of alcoholic liver disease (ALD). ALD usually manifests as fatty liver in the initial stage and then develops into alcoholic hepatitis (ASH), fibrosis and cirrhosis. Severe alcoholism induces extensive hepatocyte death, liver failure, and even hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Currently, there are few effective clinical means to treat ALD, except for abstinence. Natural compounds are a class of compounds extracted from herbs with an explicit chemical structure. Several natural compounds, such as silymarin, quercetin, hesperidin, and berberine, have been shown to have curative effects on ALD without side effects. In this review, we pay particular attention to natural compounds and developing clinical drugs based on natural compounds for ALD, with the aim of providing a potential treatment for ALD.

Indexed as

alcoholic liver diseaseapoptosisautophagyinflammatory pathwaynatural compoundsoxidative stress

Identifiers

PMID34290612
PMCPMC8287649
OpenAlexW3184466125

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