An updated review of folate-functionalized nanocarriers: A promising ligand in cancer

P Ebrahimnejad, AS Taleghani, K Asare-Addo… - Drug discovery today, 2022 - Elsevier
The uncontrolled release of drugs in conventional drug delivery systems has led to the
introduction of new nanotechnology-based drug delivery systems and the use of targeted …

Lignans and Neolignans: Plant secondary metabolites as a reservoir of biologically active substances

F Zálešák, DJYD Bon, J Pospíšil - Pharmacological Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Lignans and neolignans are plant secondary metabolites derived from the oxidative
coupling of phenylpropanoids. Biological activity of these phenolic compounds ranges from …

Phytochemical screening and antimicrobial activity evaluation of selected medicinal plants in Ethiopia

S Dubale, D Kebebe, A Zeynudin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background The emergence and spread of resistant microbes continue to be a major public
health concern. Effective treatment alternatives, particularly from traditionally used medicinal …

Marine natural products as source of new drugs: A patent review (2015–2018)

P Shinde, P Banerjee, A Mandhare - Expert opinion on therapeutic …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Natural products from plants, animals, microbes, and minerals have long been
a traditional source for the treatment of human diseases. In the past decades, research on …

Innovation in neglected tropical disease drug discovery and development

HB Weng, HX Chen, MW Wang - Infectious diseases of poverty, 2018 - mednexus.org
Background: Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are closely related to poverty and affect
over a billion people in develo** countries. The unmet treatment needs cause high …

A comprehensive review of chalcone derivatives as antileishmanial agents

MVP de Mello, B de Azevedo Abrahim-Vieira… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Leishmaniasis is a group of infectious neglected tropical diseases caused by more than 20
pathogenic species of Leishmania sp. Due to the limitations of the current treatments …

Plant secondary metabolites: an introduction of their chemistry and biological significance with physicochemical aspect

A Sharma, S Sharma, A Kumar, V Kumar… - … -chemical properties and …, 2022 - Springer
Nature is the immense source of chemical compounds or substances usually acknowledged
as natural products. Plants are the considerable source of an inestimable diversity of natural …

Andrographolide: Chemical modification and its effect on biological activities

G Kumar, D Singh, JA Tali, D Dheer, R Shankar - Bioorganic chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
The major natural bioactive constituent of Andrographis paniculata (AP)(Burm. f.) Nees
Andrographolide (1) and its derivatives are well acknowledged in literature for its biological …

Marine pharmacology in 2016–2017: Marine compounds with antibacterial, antidiabetic, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antiprotozoal, antituberculosis and antiviral …

AMS Mayer, AJ Guerrero, AD Rodríguez… - Marine drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
The review of the 2016–2017 marine pharmacology literature was prepared in a manner
similar as the 10 prior reviews of this series. Preclinical marine pharmacology research …

Potentials of marine natural products against malaria, leishmaniasis, and trypanosomiasis parasites: A review of recent articles

JA Nweze, FN Mbaoji, YM Li, LY Yang… - Infectious diseases of …, 2021 - Springer
Background Malaria and neglected communicable protozoa parasitic diseases, such as
leishmaniasis, and trypanosomiasis, are among the otherwise called diseases for neglected …