TY - JOUR
T1 - Biological activities of essential oils
T2 - From plant chemoecology to traditional healing systems
AU - Sharifi-Rad, Javad
AU - Sureda, Antoni
AU - Tenore, Gian Carlo
AU - Daglia, Maria
AU - Sharifi-Rad, Mehdi
AU - Valussi, Marco
AU - Tundis, Rosa
AU - Sharifi-Rad, Marzieh
AU - Loizzo, Monica R.
AU - Oluwaseun Ademiluyi, Adedayo
AU - Sharifi-Rad, Razieh
AU - Ayatollahi, Seyed Abdulmajid
AU - Iriti, Marcello
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2017/1
Y1 - 2017/1
N2 - Essential oils are complex mixtures of hydrocarbons and their oxygenated derivatives arising from two different isoprenoid pathways. Essential oils are produced by glandular trichomes and other secretory structures, specialized secretory tissues mainly diffused onto the surface of plant organs, particularly flowers and leaves, thus exerting a pivotal ecological role in plant. In addition, essential oils have been used, since ancient times, in many different traditional healing systems all over the world, because of their biological activities. Many preclinical studies have documented antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anticancer activities of essential oils in a number of cell and animal models, also elucidating their mechanism of action and pharmacological targets, though the paucity of in human studies limits the potential of essential oils as effective and safe phytotherapeutic agents. More well-designed clinical trials are needed in order to ascertain the real efficacy and safety of these plant products.
AB - Essential oils are complex mixtures of hydrocarbons and their oxygenated derivatives arising from two different isoprenoid pathways. Essential oils are produced by glandular trichomes and other secretory structures, specialized secretory tissues mainly diffused onto the surface of plant organs, particularly flowers and leaves, thus exerting a pivotal ecological role in plant. In addition, essential oils have been used, since ancient times, in many different traditional healing systems all over the world, because of their biological activities. Many preclinical studies have documented antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anticancer activities of essential oils in a number of cell and animal models, also elucidating their mechanism of action and pharmacological targets, though the paucity of in human studies limits the potential of essential oils as effective and safe phytotherapeutic agents. More well-designed clinical trials are needed in order to ascertain the real efficacy and safety of these plant products.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85009458346
U2 - 10.3390/molecules22010070
DO - 10.3390/molecules22010070
M3 - Artículo de revisión
C2 - 28045446
AN - SCOPUS:85009458346
SN - 1420-3049
VL - 22
JO - Molecules
JF - Molecules
IS - 1
M1 - 70
ER -