Hepatoprotection of capsaicin in alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases
This review covers capsaicin protective role against NAFLD and ALD and links it to its anti-steatotic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-fibrotic effects.
This review covers capsaicin protective role against NAFLD and ALD and links it to its anti-steatotic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-fibrotic effects.
Several experimental and clinical studies provided evidence that capsaicin protected against ischaemic or excitotoxic cerebral neuronal injury and may lower the risk of cerebral stroke.
Based on the results of past studies, capsaicin may have potential effects on the treatment of functional dyspepsia (FD).
Cisplatin (CP) is a widely used chemotherapeutic drug with subsequent adverse effects on different organs and tissues including skeletal muscle loss and atrophy as the most common clinical symptoms. Pretreatment with capsaicin could ameliorate cisplatin-induced muscle atrophy.
Capsaicin has recently shown beneficial effects in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and improved outcome in strokes.
Capsaicin has long been used as an analgesic. The development of topical patches and injectable formulations containing capsaicin has led to application in clinical settings to treat chronic pain conditions, such as neuropathic pain and the potential to treat osteoarthritis.