Cited by 236Medicinal Plants and NeuroprotectionAlzheimer's disease research and treatmentsCholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Neuroprotective Natural Products for Alzheimer’s Disease

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Chen, Xin, Drew, Joshua, Berney, Wren, Lei, Wei·2021·Cells

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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the number one neurovegetative disease, but its treatment options are relatively few and ineffective. In efforts to discover new strategies for AD therapy, natural products have aroused interest in the research community and in the pharmaceutical industry for their neuroprotective activity, targeting different pathological mechanisms associated with AD. A wide variety of natural products from different origins have been evaluated preclinically and clinically for their neuroprotective mechanisms in preventing and attenuating the multifactorial pathologies of AD. This review mainly focuses on the possible neuroprotective mechanisms from natural products that may be beneficial in AD treatment and the natural product mixtures or extracts from different sources that have demonstrated neuroprotective activity in preclinical and/or clinical studies. It is believed that natural product mixtures or extracts containing multiple bioactive compounds that can work additively or synergistically to exhibit multiple neuroprotective mechanisms might be an effective approach in AD drug discovery.

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  • Evidence on nutraceuticals allows projecting a scenario where Alzheimer's disease could have possible preventive treatments and/or a slowing palliative effect in patients who already suffer from it.

    “such evidence allows us to project a scenario where AD could have possible preventive treatments and/or have a slowing palliative effect in patients who already suffer from it [73,74,75].”
  • Mixtures of drugs or plant extracts might have advantages over single drugs by impacting different targets simultaneously, potentially being a more effective treatment option for Alzheimer's disease.

    “Mixtures of drugs or plant extracts might have advantages over single drugs as they can impact different targets simultaneously, which could be a novel and more effective treatment option for AD (Chen et al., 2021).”
  • C. longa and B. monnieri have demonstrated slight clinical improvements.

    “Consequently, although the use of some herbs, such as those of C. longa and B. monnieri, have demonstrated slight clinical improvements, many natural products such as polyphenols remain of interest in the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders [203].”

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Authors
Chen, X., Drew, J., Berney, W., & Lei, W.
Affiliations
  • Campbell University (US)
  • Presbyterian College (US)
Corresponding author
Chen, Xin
Venue
Cells
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2021-05-25
Volume
10
Issue
6
Pages
1309
ISSN
2073-4409 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3165481569
Cited by
236
References
314
Citations by year
2026: 41 · 2025: 53 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 54 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 4
FWCI
8.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cells (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Medicinal Plants and Neuroprotection
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease, neuroprotection, natural products, natural product mixtures, plant extracts, neuroprotection mechanism
MeSH terms
Alzheimer Disease, Animals, Biological Products, Humans, Neuroprotective Agents, Drug Discovery

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