Myth: Tobacco Plants Are Only For Smoking: Difference between revisions
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==Using the plant to make vaccines and medicines - Studies, Scholarly Comments== | ==Using the plant to make vaccines and medicines - Studies, Scholarly Comments== | ||
===2024: [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11045950/ Phytochemicals derived from Nicotiana tabacum L. plant contribute to pharmaceutical development]=== | |||
*"Modern medical and pharmaceutical studies have investigated that the abundant and distinctive function metabolites in tobacco including nicotine, solanesol, cembranoid diterpenes, essential oil, seed oil and other tobacco extracts, avoiding the toxic components of smoke, mainly have the anti-oxidation, anti-lipid production, pro-lipid oxidation, pro-insulin sensitivity, anti-inflammation, anti-apoptosis and antimicrobial activities. They showed potential pharmaceutical value mainly as supplements or substitutes for treating neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, inflammatory diseases including colitis, arthritis, sepsis, multiple sclerosis, and myocarditis, and metabolic syndrome including Obesity and fatty liver. This review comprehensively presents the research status and the molecular mechanisms of tobacco and its metabolites basing on almost all the English and Chinese literature in recent 20 years in the field of medicine and pharmacology." | |||
===2020: [https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2020.594591/full “Tobacco Is the Chief Medicinal Plant in My Work”: Therapeutic Uses of Tobacco in Peruvian Amazonian Medicine Exemplified by the Work of a Maestro Tabaquero]=== | ===2020: [https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2020.594591/full “Tobacco Is the Chief Medicinal Plant in My Work”: Therapeutic Uses of Tobacco in Peruvian Amazonian Medicine Exemplified by the Work of a Maestro Tabaquero]=== | ||