The effect of mint in the treatment of Alzheimer’s
The results of a study in the Faculty of Pharmacy of Tehran University of Medical Sciences showed: Herbal extracts of safflower, sage and tubular sage have a significant protective effect against the toxicity of the theamide teba amylobide.
The main constituents of these extracts include rosmarinic acid, naringin and luteolin, which can play a role in the observed light and protective effects, and due to the observed protective effects against beta-amyloid peptide, these plants can be considered in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
The study adds: Excessive accumulation of theamyloid peptide, which is one of the main plaques of aging in Alzheimer’s disease, induces oxidative stress, causes the death of nerve cells, and therefore antioxidants are used in the treatment of the disease.
Medicinal plants of the mint family are widely used in traditional Iranian medicine. These plants contain compounds with strong antioxidant properties and some plants of this family have been reported to be nosoprotective.
In this study, seven plants of sage and savory were selected and their protective effect on the toxicity of beta-amylobid peptide in PC72 cells was investigated.
It is worth mentioning that this project was carried out by Parvin Balali and Maliheh Soodi from the Department of Toxicology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Tehran, and Soodabeh Saeidnia from the Plant Research Center of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences.