Hepatoprotective Abilities of Flavonoids and the Development and Detection of Hepatic diseases (Liver disease): A Systematic Overview
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Any ailment that affects your liver is referred to as liver disease. Although the causes of these disorders may vary, they can all harm your liver and impair its ability to operate. Your liver is an essential organ that carries out hundreds of metabolic, energy-storage, and waste-filtering functions. It facilitates food digestion, energy conversion, and storage until needed. Additionally, it aids in removing harmful toxins from your circulation. Liver-protective, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory qualities are significant dietary components, such as flavonoid consumption, in enhancing liver health. These substances have liver-protective, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory qualities. Because of their pharmacological anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-cancer, and antifibrogenic properties, flavonoids can shield the liver from toxins. Natural substances' antioxidant qualities and capacity to activate the body's natural antioxidant defence system have been widely credited with their hepatoprotective effects. Given that oxidative stress is involved in almost every mechanism of liver injury, it is fair to assume that these substances' antioxidant qualities may be crucial to the mechanism underlying their hepatoprotective action. The therapeutic effects of natural substances, however, appear to be attributed to pharmacological activity other than antioxidants, according to mounting evidence. Many liver illnesses are being treated primarily with herbal medicines and the bioactive ingredients of various plant products. Several phytochemicals included in food items may be able to stop or even reverse various types of liver damage. They are extremely valuable in terms of hepatoprotection, even though the underlying mechanism is poorly known.
Author: Dr. Divya Sing1, Hina Afaq2, Abdul Hameed3*, Yash Srivastav4
Language: English
Subfield: Complementary and alternative medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6911957285
FWCI:
Cites:
Cited by:
Related to: