Nutrients· 2014Q1· Review
Resources and Biological Activities of Natural Polyphenols
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Short summary
Natural polyphenols, abundant plant compounds, show strong antioxidant and free radical scavenging abilities, offering potential for preventing and treating oxidative stress-related diseases.
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Key points
- Polyphenols are plant-based phytochemicals with significant antioxidant and free radical scavenging properties.
- They combat oxidative stress by inhibiting enzymes responsible for ROS production.
- These compounds are being investigated for their role in preventing and treating diseases linked to oxidative stress.
- The review covers polyphenol resources, bioactivities, bioavailability, and potential toxicity.
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Abstract
The oxidative stress imposed by reactive oxygen species (ROS) plays an important role in many chronic and degenerative diseases. As an important category of phytochemicals, phenolic compounds universally exist in plants, and have been considered to have high antioxidant ability and free radical scavenging capacity, with the mechanism of inhibiting the enzymes responsible for ROS production and reducing highly oxidized ROS. Therefore, phenolic compounds have attracted increasing attention as potential agents for preventing and treating many oxidative stress-related diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, ageing, diabetes mellitus and neurodegenerative diseases. This review summarizes current knowledge of natural polyphenols, including resource, bioactivities, bioavailability and potential toxicity.
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Field: Biochemistry (Medicine)
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