保健品、药物化学的一个新的挑战

Title:Nutraceuticals, A New Challenge for Medicinal Chemistry

Volume: 23 Issue: 28

Author(s): Stefania Sut, Valeria Baldan, Marta Faggian, Gregorio Peron, Stefano Dall`Acqua

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关键词: 保健食品、天然产物、代谢组学、抗氧化剂、黄酮类化合物、微生物。

摘要: “Nutraceuticals” are food-derived products largely used for their presumed healthpromoting or disease-preventing effects. In the recent years, many efforts have been aimed at assessing nutraceutical efficacy and safety, but these factors are difficult to address because of the complex chemical compositions and multiple mode of actions. Thus, the study of nutraceutical ingredients poses several challenges for the medicinal chemistry field, some of which are related to extraction and chemical characterization, some to in vitro and in vivo bioactivity evaluation, and some to the bioavailability and interaction of these natural mixtures with organs and microbiota. Furthermore, because of their nature as medicinal and food products, these nutraceuticals can also be considered as a valuable source of new “lead compounds”, creating the opportunity to discover new classes of therapeutic agents. This review provides information on these themes, showing the new challenges that comprehensive medicinal chemistry research is called to answer in the field of nutraceuticals.

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Stefania Sut, Valeria Baldan, Marta Faggian, Gregorio Peron, Stefano Dall`Acqua , Nutraceuticals, A New Challenge for Medicinal Chemistry, Current Medicinal Chemistry 2016; 23 (28) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/0929867323666160615104837