Anti-obesity and hypolipidemic effects of Morus alba- A review
1 Department Laboratory Investigation, College of Science, Basra University.
2 Department of Pathological Analysis, College of Medical and Healthy Techniques/ Southern Technique University.
Review Article
GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2021, 17(01), 186–192.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscbps.2021.17.1.0316
Publication history:
Received on 18 September 2021; revised on 21 October 2021; accepted on 23 October 2021
Abstract:
The prevalence of obesity was worldwide increase in the last 60 years. Obesity represented one of the public health problems, it markedly increased the incidence of many diseases: fatty liver, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, ischemic heart diseases, sleep apnea, osteoporosis, dementia, tumors and many other disorders. Recent reviews showed that many medicinal plants possesses anti-obesity effect. In the current review, PubMed, Web Science, Science Direct, Research gate, Academia.edu and Scopus were searched to verify the hypolipidemic and anti-obesity activities of Morus alba.
Keywords:
Anti-obesity; Overweight; Hypolipidemia; Morus alba; Review
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