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Asian Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences | Volume 9
ISSN: 2249-622X
Adriany Amorim
Earth University, Costa Rica
Extraction and development of Natural Products as an alternative
strategy for disease control
I
nflammation consists of an answer of the organism,
triggered by different types of injuries on the tissues
or for infectious agents. Although inflammatory answer
is considered a protective event, pro-inflammatory
mechanisms may contribute to the development of chronic
diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, arthritis, neurological
diseases and psoriasis, which is why the control of the
inflammatory process is desired.
Many researches have focused on new bioactive
molecules, natural products and functional foods as
alternatives to the development of new anti-inflammatory
agents. Several studies have also demonstrated the
neuroprotective,
hepatoprotective,
cardioprotective,
antifungal, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer activities of
natural compounds as lycopene.
Furthermore, lycopene pretreatment at various doses
significantly delayed tumor formation and growth, thereby
reducing skin carcinogenesis in female ICR mice. Generally,
lycopene inhibits cell proliferation, arrests cell cycle in
different phases, and increases apoptosis in breast, colon,
and prostate cancer lines.
Therefore, the idea behind this conversation will be
talking about some compounds extracted from food
with activities anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, which
work singly or in an association, might influence in the
inflammatory process, reducing its harmful effects and the
risk to develop diseases as breast cancer.
Speaker Biography
Adriany Amorim, Ph.D. in Biotechnology, is Industrial chemistry since
2002 and PhD in Biotechnology from Federal University of Piauí - Brazil
in 2015 and from Autonomous University of Madrid - Spain in 2017.
She has expertise in the extraction of antioxidants and developed
an extraction process of natural antioxidant by clean technology.
Therefore, she published two patents on this subject, one in Brazil and
another in Portugal. In her last publications on medicinal chemistry,
she has shown the effect of lycopene, extracted from natural source,
against human breast adenocarcinoma cell and, its effects on the
reduction of inflammatory process in mice. She is currently Professor
of Food Processing at EARTH University in Costa Rica and works with
the processing of some food containing natural additives, without the
addition of chemical conservators.
e:
aamorim@earth.ac.crAdriany Amorim, Asian J Biomed Pharmaceut Sci, Volume:9
DOI: 10.4066/2249-622X-C2-019
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