Beneficial effects of citrus flavanones naringin and naringenin and their food sources on lipid metabolism: An update on bioavailability, pharmacokinetics, and …

Y Yang, M Trevethan, S Wang, L Zhao - The Journal of nutritional …, 2022 - Elsevier
Naringin and naringin's aglycone naringenin belong to a subclass of flavonoids called
flavanones. While many studies of pure naringenin and naringin and their food sources …

Nuciferine, an active ingredient derived from lotus leaf, lights up the way for the potential treatment of obesity and obesity-related diseases

Y Wan, J Xia, J Xu, L Chen, Y Yang, JJ Wu… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Obesity, is an increasingly global public health problem associated complications. However,
the proven anti-obesity agents are inefficient with adverse side effects; hence attention is …

Screening natural product extracts for potential enzyme inhibitors: Protocols, and the standardisation of the usage of blanks in α-amylase, α-glucosidase and lipase …

C Lankatillake, S Luo, M Flavel, GB Lenon, H Gill… - Plant Methods, 2021 - Springer
Background Enzyme assays have widespread applications in drug discovery from plants to
natural products. The appropriate use of blanks in enzyme assays is important for assay …

Natural dietary and medicinal plants with anti-obesity therapeutics activities for treatment and prevention of obesity during lock down and in post-COVID-19 era

W Sun, MH Shahrajabian, Q Cheng - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Overweight and obesity have become global epidemics, especially during the lockdown due
to the COVID-19 pandemic. The potential of medicinal plants as a better and safe option in …

Health benefits of saponins and its mechanisms: perspectives from absorption, metabolism, and interaction with gut

Y Zhang, R Hao, J Chen, S Li, K Huang… - Critical Reviews in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Saponins, consisting of sapogenins as their aglycones and carbohydrate chains, are widely
found in plants and some marine organisms. Due to the complexity of the structure of …

A review on rhubarb-derived substances as modulators of cardiovascular risk factors—A special emphasis on anti-obesity action

O Liudvytska, J Kolodziejczyk-Czepas - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
The currently available anti-obesity therapies encounter many associated risks and side
effects often causing the ineffectiveness of treatment. Therefore, various plant-derived …

New insights into the role of dietary triglyceride absorption in obesity and metabolic diseases

X Li, Q Liu, Y Pan, S Chen, Y Zhao, Y Hu - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The incidence of obesity and associated metabolic diseases is increasing globally,
adversely affecting human health. Dietary fats, especially triglycerides, are an important …

Fruit and vegetable polyphenols as natural bioactive inhibitors of pancreatic lipase and cholesterol esterase: Inhibition mechanisms, polyphenol influences …

X He, L Chen, Y Pu, H Wang, J Cao, W Jiang - Food Bioscience, 2023 - Elsevier
Pancreatic lipase and cholesterol esterase are key enzymes in the lipid digestion and
absorption pathway and are also targeted for control in response to obesity and other …

Benzothiazole sulfonate derivatives bearing azomethine: Synthesis, characterization, enzyme inhibition, and molecular docking study

A Korkmaz, E Bursal - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2022 - Elsevier
Enzyme inhibition is one of the most applied ways to find new diagnostic facilities for the
prevention and treatment of many health problems. Tyrosinase and pancreatic lipase …

A comparative investigation into novel cholesterol esterase and pancreatic lipase inhibitory peptides from cow and camel casein hydrolysates generated upon …

P Mudgil, WN Baba, H Kamal, RJ FitzGerald… - Food chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Cow (CwC) and camel casein (CaC) hydrolysates were generated using Alcalase™(CwCA
and CaCA) and Pronase-E (CwCP and CaCP) each for 3 and 6 h, and investigated for their …