Neuroprotective Strategies for Stroke by Natural Products: Advances and Perspectives
Curr Neuropharmacol. 2023 Jul 17. doi: 10.2174/1570159X21666230717144752. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCerebral ischemic stroke is a disease with high prevalence and incidence. Its management focuses on rapid reperfusion with intravenous thrombolysis and endovascular thrombectomy. Both therapeutic strategies reduce disability, but the therapy time window is short, and the risk of bleeding is high. Natural products (NPs) have played a key role in drug discovery, especially for cancer and infectious diseases. However, they have made little progress in clinical translation and pose challenges to the treatment of stroke. Recently, with the investigation of precise mechanisms in cerebral ischemic stroke and the technological development of NP- based drug discovery, NPs are addressing these challenges and opening up new opportunities in cerebral stroke. Thus, in this review, we first summarize the structure and function of diverse NPs, including flavonoids, phenols, terpenes, lactones, quinones, alkaloids, and glycosides. Then we propose the comprehensive neuroprotective mechanism of NPs in cerebral ischemic stroke, which involves complex cascade processes of oxidative stress, mitochondrial damage, apoptosis or ferroptosis-related cell death, inflammatory response, and disruption of the blood- brain barrier (BBB). Overall, we stress the neuroprotective effect of NPs and their mechanism on cerebral ischemic stroke for a better understanding of the advances and perspective in NPs ap...
Source: Current Neuropharmacology - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Aifen Liu Jingyan Hu Tzu-Shao Yeh Chengniu Wang Jilong Tang Xiaohong Huang Bin Chen Liexiang Huangfu Weili Yu Lei Zhang Source Type: research
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