Açaí (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) in Health and Disease: A Critical Review

LF Laurindo, SM Barbalho, AC Araujo, EL Guiguer… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
The açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea Mart.), a species belonging to the Arecaceae family, has
been cultivated for thousands of years in tropical Central and South America as a …

Phytochemicals as modulators of paraoxonase-1 in health and diseases

ZN Arab, D Khayatan, SM Razavi, K Zare… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), atherosclerosis, chronic liver
disease, and neurodegenerative diseases are major causes of mortality. These diseases …

Combined effects of curcumin and lycopene or bixin in yoghurt on inhibition of LDL oxidation and increases in HDL and paraoxonase levels in streptozotocin-diabetic …

RP Assis, CA Arcaro, VO Gutierres, JO Oliveira… - International Journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Combination therapy using natural antioxidants to manage diabetes mellitus and its
complications is an emerging trend. The aim of this study was to investigate the changes …

Beneficial effects of consumption of acerola, cashew or guava processing by-products on intestinal health and lipid metabolism in dyslipidaemic female Wistar rats

KS Batista, AF Alves, M dos Santos Lima… - British Journal of …, 2018 - cambridge.org
This study assessed the effects of diet supplementation with industrial processing by-
products of acerola (Malpighia emarginata DC), cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) and …

Effects of açai on oxidative stress, ER stress, and inflammation-related parameters in mice with high fat diet-fed induced NAFLD

MM de Freitas Carvalho, NN Lage… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), the most predominant liver disease worldwide, is
a progressive condition that encompasses a spectrum of disorders ranging from steatosis to …

An overview of natural products that modulate the expression of non-coding RNAs involved in oxidative stress and inflammation-associated disorders

JA Ngum, FJ Tatang, MH Toumeni… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Oxidative stress is a state in which oxidants are produced in excess in the body's tissues and
cells, resulting in a biological imbalance amid the generation of reactive oxygen and …

Role of berry bioactive compounds on lipids and lipoproteins in diabetes and metabolic syndrome

A Basu - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Blood lipids are an important biomarker of cardiovascular health and disease. Among the
lipid biomarkers that have been widely used to monitor and predict cardiovascular diseases …

Role of polyphenols and polyphenol-rich foods in the modulation of PON1 activity and expression

D Martini, C Del Bo, M Porrini, S Ciappellano… - The Journal of nutritional …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) is a high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-associated enzyme
involved in the protection of low-density lipoprotein and HDLs against lipid peroxidation …

Effects of soy isoflavone on hepatic steatosis in high fat-induced rats

H Liu, H Zhong, L Leng, Z Jiang - Journal of clinical biochemistry …, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
抄録 Soy isoflavone has benefits for metabolic syndrome but the mechanism is not
completely understood. This study was designed to determine the effects of soy isoflavone …

Quercetin abrogates oxidative neurotoxicity induced by silver nanoparticles in wistar rats

SS Elblehi, EM Abd El-Maksoud, A Aldhahrani… - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study aimed to investigate the oxidative neurotoxicity induced by silver nanoparticles
(AgNPs) and assess the neuroprotective effects of quercetin against this toxicity. Forty adult …