Natural Product-Based Nanomedicine in Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. uri icon

abstract

  • : Many synthetic drugs and monoclonal antibodies are currently in use to treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). However, they all are implicated in causing severe side effects and long-term use results in many complications. Numerous in vitro and in vivo experiments demonstrate that phytochemicals and natural macromolecules from plants and animals reduce IBD-related complications with encouraging results. Additionally, many of them modify enzymatic activity, alleviate oxidative stress, and downregulate pro-inflammatory transcriptional factors and cytokine secretion. Translational significance of natural nanomedicine and strategies to investigate future natural product-based nanomedicine is discussed. Our focus in this review is to summarize the use of phytochemicals and macromolecules encapsulated in nanoparticles for the treatment of IBD and IBD-associated colorectal cancer.

published proceedings

  • Int J Mol Sci

altmetric score

  • 1

author list (cited authors)

  • Khare, T., Palakurthi, S. S., Shah, B. M., Palakurthi, S., & Khare, S.

citation count

  • 21

complete list of authors

  • Khare, Tripti||Palakurthi, Sushesh Srivatsa||Shah, Brijesh M||Palakurthi, Srinath||Khare, Sharad

publication date

  • January 2020

publisher