Title:A Recent Look into Natural Products that have Potential to Inhibit Cholinesterases and Monoamine Oxidase B: Update for 2010-2019
Volume: 23
Issue: 9
Author(s): Hayrettin O. Gulcan and Ilkay E. Orhan*
Affiliation:
- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, Ankara 06300,Turkey
Keywords:
Acetylcholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase, monoamine oxidase B, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson’s disease,
natural products.
Abstract: With respect to the unknowns of pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)-, and
Parkinson’s Disease (PD)-like neurodegenerative disorders, natural product research is still one of
the valid tools in order to provide alternative and/or better treatment options. At one hand, various
extracts of herbals provide a combination of actions targeting multiple receptors, on the other hand,
the discovery of active natural products (i.e., secondary metabolites) generally offers alternative
chemical structures either ready to be employed in clinical studies or available to be utilized as
important scaffolds for the design of novel agents. Regarding the importance of certain enzymes
(e.g. cholinesterase and monoamine oxidase B), for the treatment of AD and PD, we have surveyed
the natural product research within this area in the last decade. Particularly novel natural agents
discovered within this period, concomitant to novel biological activities displayed for known
natural products, are harmonized within the present study.