Skip to content
Research Article Open access CC BY 4.0

Promiscuous Bioactivty of Phytochemicals

Ogochukwu Jennifer Umezinwa, Muhammad Alfa Ma’ali, Mohammed Yakubu Manbe, Ugwu Obiora Celestine, Nwankwo Ukechi Joy, Augustine Odibo, Abdullahi Alausa

Asian Journal of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · pp. 28–44 · Published 15 Jul 2021

10.9734/ajbgmb/2021/v8i330195

Abstract

Phytochemicals are broad, largely studied compounds isolated from plants, generally regarded as a research compound than a nutritive molecule. In recent times, the pharmaceutical industry employs plants in the synthesis of novel drugs and active ingredients. These drugs and ingredients effectively manage neurodegenerative disorders, metabolic diseases, cancer, obesity, and other chronic-degenerative diseases. Although it still remains to be elucidated, the therapeutic strategies in synthesizing novel compounds. In this review, we discuss the major classification of phytochemicals, in addition to its biochemical mechanism of action. Furthermore, this study detailed the biosynthetic cascade of various phytochemicals and explained the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant mechanism on various disease processes. Therefore, this review discusses the multifunctional bioactivity of phytochemicals. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT

Phytochemicals COVID-19 neurodegenerative disease cancer obesity

Cited by 2

The role of diosgenin in crohn’s disease

Sunday Ogundepo, Adinnu M. Chiamaka, Mercy Olatinwo · Clinical Phytoscience · 2022

Article metrics

Real usage data collected on this platform.

0

Page views

0

PDF downloads

0

Outbound clicks

2

Citations

Views by country

Approximate, from request IP at view time — not citizenship or institution. Countries with fewer than 5 views are grouped as "Other".

No views recorded yet.

Traffic sources

Referring site, by host.

No traffic recorded yet.

Views and downloads exclude known bots/crawlers. Citations combines this platform's own DOI-resolved index with each external source's own reported total — see Cited by above for individually listed citing works. Last refreshed 0 seconds ago.