Stilbenes, a versatile class of natural metabolites for inflammation—an overview

JM Al-Khayri, R Mascarenhas, HM Harish, Y Gowda… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Stilbenes are polyphenolic allelochemicals synthesized by plants, especially grapes,
peanuts, rhubarb, berries, etc., to defend themselves under stressful conditions. They are …

Phenolic compounds characteristic of the mediterranean diet in mitigating microglia-mediated neuroinflammation

R Hornedo-Ortega, AB Cerezo… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Neuroinflammation is a pathological feature of quite a number of Central Nervous System
diseases such as Alzheimer and Parkinson's disease among others. The hallmark of brain …

Role of Nrf2 in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis

J Mimura, K Itoh - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the vascular arterial walls. A number of
studies have revealed the biological and genetic bases of atherosclerosis, and over 100 …

Resveratrol alleviates endotoxin-induced myocardial toxicity via the Nrf2 transcription factor

E Hao, F Lang, Y Chen, H Zhang, X Cong, X Shen… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background/Aims Septic cardiomyopathy is a severe condition that remains a challenge for
clinical management. This study investigated whether the natural polyphenolic compound …

Potential therapeutic effects of natural heme oxygenase-1 inducers in cardiovascular diseases

I Barbagallo, F Galvano, A Frigiola… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2013 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Many physiological effects of natural antioxidants, their extracts or their major
active components, have been reported in recent decades. Most of these compounds are …

The Oral Bioavailability of Trans‐Resveratrol from a Grapevine‐Shoot Extract in Healthy Humans is Significantly Increased by Micellar Solubilization

LA Calvo‐Castro, C Schiborr, F David… - Molecular nutrition & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Scope Grapevine‐shoot extract Vineatrol30 contains abundant resveratrol monomers and
oligomers with health‐promoting potential. However, the oral bioavailability of these …

Nrf2-mediated dichotomy in the vascular system: Mechanistic and therapeutic perspective

W Wu, A Hendrix, S Nair, T Cui - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nuclear factor-erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), a transcription factor, controls the
expression of more than 1000 genes that can be clustered into different categories with …

Keap1/Nrf2/ARE redox-sensitive signaling system as a pharmacological target

NK Zenkov, EB Menshchikova, VO Tkachev - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2013 - Springer
The redox-sensitive signaling system Keap1/Nrf2/ARE plays a key role in maintenance of
cellular homeostasis under stress, inflammatory, carcinogenic, and proapoptotic conditions …

Pharmacological models and approaches for pathophysiological conditions associated with hypoxia and oxidative stress

JG Farias, EA Herrera, C Carrasco-Pozo… - Pharmacology & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Hypoxia is the failure of oxygenation at the tissue level, where the reduced oxygen delivered
is not enough to satisfy tissue demands. Metabolic depression is the physiological …

Prevention of diabetes-induced cardiovascular complications upon treatment with antioxidants

YJ Xu, PS Tappia, NS Neki, NS Dhalla - Heart failure reviews, 2014 - Springer
Oxidative stress is considered to play an important role in the pathogenesis of diabetes-
induced cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is invariably associated with abnormal blood …