The Potential of Edible and Medicinal Resource Polysaccharides for Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases
As natural medicines in complementary and alternative medicine, edible and medicinal resources are being gradually recognized throughout the world. According to statistics from the World Health Organization, about 80% of the worldwide population has used edible and medicinal resource products to pre...
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| author | Qingxia Gan Yugang Ding Maoyao Peng Linlin Chen Jijing Dong Jiaxi Hu Yuntong Ma |
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| description | As natural medicines in complementary and alternative medicine, edible and medicinal resources are being gradually recognized throughout the world. According to statistics from the World Health Organization, about 80% of the worldwide population has used edible and medicinal resource products to prevent and treat diseases. Polysaccharides, one of the main effective components in edible and medicinal resources, are considered ideal regulators of various biological responses due to their high effectiveness and low toxicity, and they have a wide range of possible applications for the development of functional foods for the regulation of common, frequently occurring, chronic and severe diseases. Such applications include the development of polysaccharide products for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases that are difficult to control by a single treatment, which is of great value to the aging population. Therefore, we evaluated the potential of polysaccharides to prevent neurodegeneration by their regulation of behavioral and major pathologies, including abnormal protein aggregation and neuronal damage caused by neuronal apoptosis, autophagy, oxidative damage, neuroinflammation, unbalanced neurotransmitters, and poor synaptic plasticity. This includes multi-target and multi-pathway regulation involving the mitochondrial pathway, MAPK pathway, NF-κB pathway, Nrf2 pathway, mTOR pathway, PI3K/AKT pathway, P53/P21 pathway, and BDNF/TrkB/CREB pathway. In this paper, research into edible and medicinal resource polysaccharides for neurodegenerative diseases was reviewed in order to provide a basis for the development and application of polysaccharide health products and promote the recognition of functional products of edible and medicinal resources. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c3f64a09584845fdb4bb1c7e3f859bec2023-11-18T00:40:27ZengMDPI AGBiomolecules2218-273X2023-05-0113587310.3390/biom13050873The Potential of Edible and Medicinal Resource Polysaccharides for Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative DiseasesQingxia Gan0Yugang Ding1Maoyao Peng2Linlin Chen3Jijing Dong4Jiaxi Hu5Yuntong Ma6College of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, ChinaCollege of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, ChinaCollege of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, ChinaCollege of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, ChinaCollege of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, ChinaCollege of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, ChinaCollege of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, ChinaAs natural medicines in complementary and alternative medicine, edible and medicinal resources are being gradually recognized throughout the world. According to statistics from the World Health Organization, about 80% of the worldwide population has used edible and medicinal resource products to prevent and treat diseases. Polysaccharides, one of the main effective components in edible and medicinal resources, are considered ideal regulators of various biological responses due to their high effectiveness and low toxicity, and they have a wide range of possible applications for the development of functional foods for the regulation of common, frequently occurring, chronic and severe diseases. Such applications include the development of polysaccharide products for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases that are difficult to control by a single treatment, which is of great value to the aging population. Therefore, we evaluated the potential of polysaccharides to prevent neurodegeneration by their regulation of behavioral and major pathologies, including abnormal protein aggregation and neuronal damage caused by neuronal apoptosis, autophagy, oxidative damage, neuroinflammation, unbalanced neurotransmitters, and poor synaptic plasticity. This includes multi-target and multi-pathway regulation involving the mitochondrial pathway, MAPK pathway, NF-κB pathway, Nrf2 pathway, mTOR pathway, PI3K/AKT pathway, P53/P21 pathway, and BDNF/TrkB/CREB pathway. In this paper, research into edible and medicinal resource polysaccharides for neurodegenerative diseases was reviewed in order to provide a basis for the development and application of polysaccharide health products and promote the recognition of functional products of edible and medicinal resources.https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/13/5/873neurodegenerative diseasesedible and medicinal resourcespolysaccharideshealth productspathways |
| spellingShingle | Qingxia Gan Yugang Ding Maoyao Peng Linlin Chen Jijing Dong Jiaxi Hu Yuntong Ma The Potential of Edible and Medicinal Resource Polysaccharides for Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases Biomolecules neurodegenerative diseases edible and medicinal resources polysaccharides health products pathways |
| title | The Potential of Edible and Medicinal Resource Polysaccharides for Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| title_full | The Potential of Edible and Medicinal Resource Polysaccharides for Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| title_fullStr | The Potential of Edible and Medicinal Resource Polysaccharides for Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Potential of Edible and Medicinal Resource Polysaccharides for Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| title_short | The Potential of Edible and Medicinal Resource Polysaccharides for Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| title_sort | potential of edible and medicinal resource polysaccharides for prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases |
| topic | neurodegenerative diseases edible and medicinal resources polysaccharides health products pathways |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/13/5/873 |
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