Curcumin: from ancient medicine to current clinical trials

H Hatcher, R Planalp, J Cho, FM Torti… - Cellular and molecular life …, 2008 - Springer
Curcumin is the active ingredient in the traditional herbal remedy and dietary spice turmeric
(Curcuma longa). Curcumin has a surprisingly wide range of beneficial properties, including …

Curcumin: the Indian solid gold

BB Aggarwal, C Sundaram, N Malani… - The molecular targets and …, 2007 - Springer
Turmeric, derived from the plant Curcuma longa, is a gold-colored spice commonly used in
the Indian subcontinent, not only for health care but also for the preservation of food and as …

A review of nutrients and compounds, which promote or inhibit intestinal iron absorption: making a platform for dietary measures that can reduce iron uptake in …

NT Milman - Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. To provide an overview of nutrients and compounds, which influence human
intestinal iron absorption, thereby making a platform for elaboration of dietary …

Iron behaving badly: inappropriate iron chelation as a major contributor to the aetiology of vascular and other progressive inflammatory and degenerative diseases

DB Kell - BMC medical genomics, 2009 - Springer
Background The production of peroxide and superoxide is an inevitable consequence of
aerobic metabolism, and while these particular'reactive oxygen species'(ROSs) can exhibit a …

Curcumin: a potential neuroprotective agent in Parkinson's disease

RB Mythri, MM Srinivas Bharath - Current pharmaceutical …, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is an age-associated neurodegenerative disease clinically
characterized as a movement disorder. The motor symptoms in PD arise due to selective …

Food‐derived antioxidants and COVID‐19

C Lammi, A Arnoldi - Journal of Food Biochemistry, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract SARS‐CoV‐2 (previously 2019‐nCoV), the pathogenic agent of COVID‐19
disease, started to expand from Wuhan, China, on December 2019 and in 2 months, it …

Influence of food matrix and food processing on the chemical interaction and bioaccessibility of dietary phytochemicals: A review

F Shahidi, Y Pan - Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Consumption of phytochemicals-rich foods shows the health effect on some chronic
diseases. However, the bioaccessibility of these phytochemicals is extremely low, and they …

Curcumin and curcumin-like molecules: from spice to drugs

A Marchiani, C Rozzo, A Fadda… - Current medicinal …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Curcumin is the major yellow pigment extracted from turmeric, a commonly used spice in
Asian cuisine and extensively employed in ayurvedic herbal remedies. A number of studies …

[HTML][HTML] Antioxidants in liver health

S Casas-Grajales, P Muriel - World journal of gastrointestinal …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Liver diseases are a worldwide medical problem because the liver is the principal
detoxifying organ and maintains metabolic homeostasis. The liver metabolizes various …

Curcumin, a cancer chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic agent, is a biologically active iron chelator

Y Jiao, J Wilkinson IV, X Di, W Wang… - Blood, The Journal …, 2009 - ashpublications.org
Curcumin is a natural product currently in human clinical trials for a variety of neoplastic,
preneoplastic, and inflammatory conditions. We previously observed that, in cultured cells …