1. Desmodium adscendens (Sw.) DC.: A magnificent plant with biological and pharmacological properties
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Maria Giulia Manzione, Jesús Herrera‐Bravo, Javad Sharifi‐Rad, Dorota Kregiel, Mustafa Sevindik, Emre Sevindik, Zeliha Salamoglu, Wissam Zam, Sara Vitalini, Christophe Hano, Wirginia Kukula‐Koch, Wojciech Koch, and Raffaele Pezzani
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clinical trial ,Desmodium adscendens ,pharmacological properties ,phytochemistry ,preclinical studies ,Nutrition. Foods and food supply ,TX341-641 ,Food processing and manufacture ,TP368-456 - Abstract
Abstract Desmodium adscendens (Sw.) DC. is a plant of the Fabaceae family especially rich in flavonoids but also in alkaloids, terpenoids, steroids, phenols, phenylpropanoids, glycosides, and volatiles. This herb has been traditionally used in numerous countries all over the world for its pharmacological and biological properties (i.e., it has been used for the treatment of diarrheas, fever, epilepsy, asthma, leishmaniasis, gastroduodenal ulcer, diabetes, hepatic diseases, etc.). Given the wide uses of D. adscendens, this review summarizes all recent data on D. adscendens evaluating its phytochemistry as well as its ethno‐traditional and pharmacological properties. In addition, an association between the phytocompounds of this plant and its potential mechanism of action in cell and animal models has been investigated, focusing with a special emphasis on human experiments.
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- 2022
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