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Título
Beyond the exploration of muicle (Justicia spicigera): Reviewing Its biological properties, bioactive molecules and materials chemistry
Año del Documento
2022
Editorial
MDPI
Descripción
Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Processes, 2022, Vol. 10, Nº. 5, 1035
Résumé
In recent years, the research community is tremendously investigating unexplored plants and herbals as they represent a potential source of various biomolecules, which not only contribute to nutrition but also to human health. In fact, Muicle (Justicia spicigera) has attracted the attention of scientists thanks to its multiple biological activities associated with the phytochemicals and specific biomolecules present in this plant. In this review, an evidence on current development works assaying the potential biological properties of Muicle is given. Here, we introduce the key biologically active molecules ascribed to such properties, along with the mechanism of action and interaction. Although the utilization of this plant has been majorly focused on traditional medicine, specific applications in terms of production of new feedstocks and nanomaterials, and developments of functional foods and formulations, are also a current direction towards the exploitation of this natural source. Therefore, this review reports the main outcomes of current research towards the utilization of biomolecules and other elements of the plant in new fields of research such as materials chemistry.
Materias (normalizadas)
Bioactive compounds
Compuestos bioactivos
Plant biotechnology
Plantas - Biotecnología
Mechanism of action
Flavonoids
Flavonoides
Nanostructured materials
Materiales nanoestructurados
Nanotechnology
Nanotecnología
Materias Unesco
3303 Ingeniería y Tecnología Químicas
3308 Ingeniería y Tecnología del Medio Ambiente
Palabras Clave
Justicia spicigera
ISSN
2227-9717
Revisión por pares
SI
Patrocinador
Agencia Nacional Polaca para el Intercambio Académico (NAWA) - (Agreement PPN/ULM/2020/1/00005/U/00001)
Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias y Centro de Biotecnología FEMSA, Monterrey - (grant 0020209I13)
Junta de Castilla y León y Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) - (grant CLU2017-09, CL-EI-2021-07, UIC 338)
Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias y Centro de Biotecnología FEMSA, Monterrey - (grant 0020209I13)
Junta de Castilla y León y Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) - (grant CLU2017-09, CL-EI-2021-07, UIC 338)
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Propietario de los Derechos
© 2022 The Authors
Idioma
eng
Tipo de versión
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Derechos
openAccess
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