Analgesic Potential of Essential Oils

Pain is an unpleasant sensation associated with a wide range of injuries and diseases, and affects approximately 20% of adults in the world. The discovery of new and more effective drugs that can relieve pain is an important research goal in both the pharmaceutical industry and academia. This review...

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Autores principales: Sarmento-Neto, José Ferreira, do Nascimento, Lázaro Gomes, Felipe, Cícero Francisco Bezerra, de Sousa, Damião Pergentino
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6273222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26703556
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules21010020
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author Sarmento-Neto, José Ferreira
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description Pain is an unpleasant sensation associated with a wide range of injuries and diseases, and affects approximately 20% of adults in the world. The discovery of new and more effective drugs that can relieve pain is an important research goal in both the pharmaceutical industry and academia. This review describes studies involving antinociceptive activity of essential oils from 31 plant species. Botanical aspects of aromatic plants, mechanisms of action in pain models and chemical composition profiles of the essential oils are discussed. The data obtained in these studies demonstrate the analgesic potential of this group of natural products for therapeutic purposes.
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spelling pubmed-62732222018-12-28 Analgesic Potential of Essential Oils Sarmento-Neto, José Ferreira do Nascimento, Lázaro Gomes Felipe, Cícero Francisco Bezerra de Sousa, Damião Pergentino Molecules Review Pain is an unpleasant sensation associated with a wide range of injuries and diseases, and affects approximately 20% of adults in the world. The discovery of new and more effective drugs that can relieve pain is an important research goal in both the pharmaceutical industry and academia. This review describes studies involving antinociceptive activity of essential oils from 31 plant species. Botanical aspects of aromatic plants, mechanisms of action in pain models and chemical composition profiles of the essential oils are discussed. The data obtained in these studies demonstrate the analgesic potential of this group of natural products for therapeutic purposes. MDPI 2015-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6273222/ /pubmed/26703556 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules21010020 Text en © 2015 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Analgesic Potential of Essential Oils
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6273222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26703556
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules21010020
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