Free Radicals in Diseases and Potential Role of Phytoconstituents-A Cause with Emerging Importance

Antidiabetic Attributes of Desert and Steppic Plants: A Review

“…Being exposed to harsh environmental stress conditions, desert and steppic plants have developed unique survival systems based on phytochemicals of remarkable properties. Many of them not only protect the plant against the enhanced environmental oxidative stress conditions but are thought also to be capable of diminishing, or even preventing, deleterious oxidative processes in the human body, which are involved in the development of cancer, diabetes, and neurodegenerative diseases [21]. The high potential of desert and steppic plants in treating and preventing diabetes is reflected in Bedouin ethnic medicine.…”