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Plants as a Novel Dietary Supplement and Medicine

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2024) | Viewed by 3080

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Prof. Dr. Szu-Chuan Shen

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Graduate Program of Nutrition Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 11677, Taiwan
Interests: natural products; herbs; bioactivities; therapeutics; health food; diabetes; non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
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Dear Colleagues,

Since ancient times, plants have been a significant source of principles with biological property and some of which are beneficial for human health. Plants have thus served as the foundation of dietary supplement and traditional medicine systems. In recent years, plants have been intensively explored and studied for their therapeutic potential such as anticancer, antiviral, antimicrobial, antioxidant, antihyperglycemic, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, etc. activities. However, many natural compounds from plants beneficial for human health and their mechanisms of action remain undiscovered. Nowadays, new insights into dietary supplement and medicine of plants are still needed to better understand their intrinsic complexity and exploit their vast commercial potential. In this Special Issue, articles (original research papers, perspectives, hypotheses, opinions, reviews, modelling approaches, and methods) that focus on studies of modern cosmetic, functional food, dietary supplement and medicine from plants are most welcome.

Prof. Dr. Szu-Chuan Shen
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • therapeutic potential
  • functional food
  • dietary supplement
  • medicine
  • plant

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Some Nutritional Value Aspects of Barley and Oat and Their Impact in Human Nutrition and Healthy Life
by Diana Camelia Batîr Rusu, Danela Murariu, Roxana Gheorghita and Mariana Graur
Plants 2024, 13(19), 2764; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13192764 - 2 Oct 2024
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Nowadays, there is a general concern regarding the increasing global talk about functional foods that respond to our demands and needs as consumers in order to maintain health and body weight through a correctly balanced diet. Cereals are key elements of nutrition and [...] Read more.
Nowadays, there is a general concern regarding the increasing global talk about functional foods that respond to our demands and needs as consumers in order to maintain health and body weight through a correctly balanced diet. Cereals are key elements of nutrition and a healthy diet, and they also play a significant role in health promotion due to the useful nutrient content. Therefore, this work aims to identify barley and oat genotypes suitable for human nutrition and to achieve practical results for their widespread use in preventing or treating certain chronic diseases by analyzing the nutritional and physical properties of 52 genotypes of oat and barley conserved in Suceava Gene Bank, Romania. The first part of this manuscript is the presentation of these accessions and the evaluation of their most important properties. For oat and barley cultivars, detailed processing was carried out, involving the computation of variation amplitude, coefficients of correlation and cluster analyses, both for biochemical (protein, lysine and tryptophan contents) and physical (test weight and seed weight) properties. The results indicated high variability between oat and barley varieties. Thus, according to the results, the 26 varieties of oat exhibited almost double the content of lysine compared to barley seeds, while tryptophan had higher values in barley than in oat seeds. Overall, both species play an essential role in human nutrition, barley being important because of its high protein content and higher productivity compared to oats, which, although not as productive, have better quality seeds due to their higher lysine content. The results presented are not only of scientific interest but also have practical implications for agriculture, food safety, nutrition and human health. The documented information will facilitate new studies needed to contribute to improving human nutrition and health. Full article
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Therapeutic Application of Dendrobium fimbriatum Hook for Retinopathy Caused by Ultraviolet Radiation and Chemotherapy Using ARPE-19 Cells and Mouse Retina
by Chi-Feng Cheng, Sheue-Er Wang, Chen-Wen Lu, Thi Kim Ngan Nguyen, Szu-Chuan Shen, Chia-Ying Lien, Wu-Chang Chuang, Ming-Chung Lee and Chung-Hsin Wu
Plants 2024, 13(5), 617; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13050617 - 23 Feb 2024
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Retinopathy caused by ultraviolet radiation and cancer chemotherapy has increased dramatically in humans due to rapid environmental and social changes. Therefore, it is very important to develop therapeutic strategies to effectively alleviate retinopathy. In China, people often choose dendrobium to improve their eyesight. [...] Read more.
Retinopathy caused by ultraviolet radiation and cancer chemotherapy has increased dramatically in humans due to rapid environmental and social changes. Therefore, it is very important to develop therapeutic strategies to effectively alleviate retinopathy. In China, people often choose dendrobium to improve their eyesight. In this study, we explored how Dendrobium fimbriatum extract (DFE) protects ARPE-19 cells and mouse retinal tissue from damage of ultraviolet (UV) radiation and chemotherapy. We evaluated the antioxidant capacity of DFE using the 1,1-diphenyl-2-trinitophenylhydrazine (DPPH) assay. The protective effects of DEF from UV- and oxaliplatin (OXA)-induced damage were examined in ARPE-19 cells using 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay and immunofluorescence (IF) stains, and in mouse retinal tissue using immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains. Our results show that DFE has excellent antioxidant capacity. The ARPE-19 cell viability was decreased and the F-actin cytoskeleton structure was damaged by UV radiation and OXA chemotherapy, but both were alleviated after the DFE treatment. Furthermore, DFE treatment can alleviate OXA chemotherapy-induced reduced expressions of rhodopsin and SOD2 and increased expressions of TNF-α and caspase 3 in mouse retinal tissue. Thus, we suggest that DFE can act as suitable treatment for retinopathy through reducing oxidative stress, inflammation, and apoptosis. Full article
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