L. Aqueous and Ethyl Acetate Extracts: Antioxidant Effect and Potential Activity In Vitro and In Vivo against Pancreatic α-Amylase and Intestinal α-Glucosidase.

L. is one of the plants which has been used in folk medicine for many diseases over many centuries. This study aims to analyze the chemical composition of the ethyl acetate and its aqueous extracts and to evaluate their effect on the pancreatic α-amylase enzyme and the intestinal α-glucosidase enzyme.

COVID-19: Oxidative Preconditioning as a Potential Therapeutic Approach.

This Article summarizes the likely benefits of central nervous system oxidative preconditioning in the reduction of COVID-19 based on its putative pathogenesis. The current COVID-19 outbreak caused a pandemic with millions of infected patients and death cases worldwide. The clinical features of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) was initially linked with respiratory disorders, but recent studies have reported alterations of neurological and cerebrovascular functions in COVID-19 patients.