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Natural Products From Madagascar, Socio-Cultural Usage, and Potential Applications in Advanced Biomedicine: A Concise Review

Version 1 : Received: 23 June 2021 / Approved: 25 June 2021 / Online: 25 June 2021 (12:02:28 CEST)

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Mesa, C.L.; Ranalison, O.; Randriantseheno, L.N.; Risuleo, G. Natural Products from Madagascar, Socio-Cultural Usage, and Potential Applications in Advanced Biomedicine: A Concise Review. Molecules 2021, 26, 4507. Mesa, C.L.; Ranalison, O.; Randriantseheno, L.N.; Risuleo, G. Natural Products from Madagascar, Socio-Cultural Usage, and Potential Applications in Advanced Biomedicine: A Concise Review. Molecules 2021, 26, 4507.

Abstract

Natural products endowed of biological activity represent a primary source of commodities ranging from nutrition to therapeutic agents, as well as cosmetic tools, and recreational principles. These natural means have been used by mankind since centuries if not millennia. They are commonly used all over the world and socio-economical contexts but are particularly attractive in disadvantaged area or economically emerging situations all over the world. This is very likely due to the relatively easy recovery of these bioactive principles from the environment, to the low if any cost as well as ease of administration and to the general popular compliance concerning their consumption/ingestion. In this concise review, we focus on some popular bioactive principles of botanical origin which find a wide use in the Madagascan populations. But, due to space limitations only some most common and largely diffused principles in this country are considered. Finally, a possible nanotechnological administration is discussed in the case where a potential therapeutic usage is envisaged.

Keywords

Natural products; Madagascan active principles; Nano-delivery.

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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