A review of medicinal plants with nephroprotective effects

Ali Esmail Al-Snafi; Tayseer Ali Talab

doi:10.30574/gscbps.2019.8.1.0108

Authors

Ali Esmail Al-Snafi Department of Pharmacology, Thi qar College of Medicine, Iraq.
Tayseer Ali Talab Department of Pharmacology, Thi qar College of Medicine, Iraq.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30574/gscbps.2019.8.1.0108

Keywords:

Medicinal plants, Pharmacology, Nephroprotective, Toxicology

Abstract

In this study, online databases including Web Science, PubMed, Scopus and Science Direct, were searched to investigate an alternative nephroprotective remedy against gentamicin, paracetamol, profenofos, D galactosamine (D-GalN), chronic-stress, sepsis and cytotoxic drugs induced kidney injury as well as streptozotocin induced diabetic nephropathy, in addition to chemically induced nephrolithiasis. The review showed that many medicinal plants can attenuate the biochemical, functional and structural renal toxicities of a wide range of drugs and toxins representing effective nephroprotective alternatives

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