Abstract

TOP EDIBLE WILD PLANTS OF EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION. PART VI: VARIOUS ACTIVITIES

Abdullatif Azab*

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Abstract

The first five review articles in this series presented anticancer, antiinflammatory, antidiabetic, antimicrobial and antiviral, and antioxidant activities of the most important wild edible plants of eastern Mediterranean region, which we named as the “Deca-plants” (D-P). In this article other activities will be presented. Although the activities and properties that will be introduced in this article are very important, none of them was published in a large number of research articles that is close to each one of the activities presented in the first five articles. In rare cases that they were overlooked, some of the properties discussed in the first five articles will be presented here. So, this will be the last article of this series and will include many figures of structures of active secondary metabolites contained in the plants. We tried avoiding using publications that we cited in the first five articles unless they report activities that were not discussed in the first five parts. The last sections of this article will discuss the presented activities, present selected similar activities of Non- Deca-Plants, when the criteria of selection are wild and edible; and conclusions will be drawn with future research and applications.

Keywords: Chemical composition, plant extract, essential oil, cardioprotective, fertility, gastroprotective, hepatoprotective, nephroprotective, Alzheimer’s disease, laxative.