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Arora S, Rathore C. Potential role of herbal nanoformulations for skin disorders: a review. Ther Deliv 2023; 14:511-525. [PMID: 37698077 DOI: 10.4155/tde-2023-0024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/13/2023] Open
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Aim: In the recent advanced study, the popularity of herbal nano-formulation has gained around the whole world. As we know the reason behind it is that herbal products have comparatively lesser side effects than other synthetic products. Significance: These natural plant extracts have wide medicinal importance as they increase the overall bioavailability of products toward tissues. Key findings: This review provides the use of different herbal nano-formulations, their safety considerations, and the challenges being faced. It also highlights the various Clinical Trials and Patents that are published for skin disorders. Conclusion: The present review describes how the rise of herbal products has made wider interest in transdermal formulations and improve the overall productivity by preventing various skin disorders.
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- Sahil Arora
- University Institute of Pharma Sciences, Chandigarh University, Ajitgarh, Punjab, 140413, India
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- University Institute of Pharma Sciences, Chandigarh University, Ajitgarh, Punjab, 140413, India
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Wang Z, Zu X, Xiong S, Mao R, Qiu Y, Chen B, Zeng Z, Chen M, He Y. The Role of Colchicine in Different Clinical Phenotypes of Behcet Disease. Clin Ther 2023; 45:162-176. [PMID: 36732153 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2023.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2022] [Revised: 12/29/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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PURPOSE Behcet disease (BD) is a multisystemic disorder characterized by variable clinical manifestations that affect nearly all systems and organs. Colchicine, an alkaloid plant extract, is considered as the first-line therapy for gout, pericarditis, and familial Mediterranean fever. However, the role of colchicine in the treatment of different clinical phenotypes of BD has not been clearly described. This narrative review summarizes the clinical use of colchicine in BD. METHODS All relevant literature from 1980 to March 2021 was searched in PubMed, MEDLINE, and Cochrane Library. The Medical Subject Heading terms and related words that were searched are as follows: Behcet's disease, Behcet's syndrome, BD, colchicine, management, treatment, and therapy. FINDINGS BD is an autoimmune systemic vasculitis with various clinical phenotypes, with involvement of skin mucosa, joints, eyes, and gastrointestinal, vascular, and neurologic systems. Colchicine has been used for centuries, acts by binding to tubulin to prevent the mitotic process, and has anti-inflammatory, antitumor, and antifibrotic properties. Colchicine has been reported to be an effective option for the treatment of skin, mucosal, and joint involvement in patients with certain BD clinical phenotypes. IMPLICATIONS Colchicine reduces the severity of certain clinical phenotypes and may improve the overall disease activity index in patients with BD. More randomized clinical trials are needed to confirm the value of colchicine in the treatment of BD, and further elucidation of the mechanisms is also needed, which may reveal new application of colchicine that has been used for centuries.
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- Zeyuan Wang
- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Cardiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
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Dastoli S, Nisticò SP, Morrone P, Patruno C, Leo A, Citraro R, Gallelli L, Russo E, De Sarro G, Bennardo L. Colchicine in Managing Skin Conditions: A Systematic Review. Pharmaceutics 2022; 14:pharmaceutics14020294. [PMID: 35214027 PMCID: PMC8878049 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics14020294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2021] [Revised: 01/24/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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(1) Background: Colchicine is a natural alkaloid with anti-inflammatory properties used to treat various disorders, including some skin diseases. This paper aims to incorporate all the available studies proposing colchicine as a treatment alternative in the management of cutaneous conditions. (2) Methods: In this systematic review, the available articles present in various databases (PubMed, Scopus-Embase, and Web of Science), proposing colchicine as a treatment for cutaneous pathological conditions, have been selected. Exclusion criteria included a non-English language and non-human studies. (3) Results: Ninety-six studies were included. Most of them were case reports and case series studies describing colchicine as single therapy, or in combination with other drugs. Hidradenitis suppurativa, pyoderma gangrenosum, erythema nodosum, erythema induratum, storage diseases, perforating dermatosis, bullous diseases, psoriasis, vasculitis, acne, urticaria, stomatitis, actinic keratosis, and pustular dermatosis were the main diseases discussed in literature. Although the therapeutic outcomes were variable, most of the studies reported, on average, good clinical results (4) Conclusions: Colchicine could be, as a single therapy or in combination with other drugs, a possible treatment to manage several skin diseases.
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- Stefano Dastoli
- Department of Health Sciences, Magna Graecia University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.D.); (S.P.N.); (C.P.); (A.L.); (R.C.); (L.G.); (E.R.); (G.D.S.)
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- Department of Health Sciences, Magna Graecia University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.D.); (S.P.N.); (C.P.); (A.L.); (R.C.); (L.G.); (E.R.); (G.D.S.)
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- Department of Health Sciences, Magna Graecia University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.D.); (S.P.N.); (C.P.); (A.L.); (R.C.); (L.G.); (E.R.); (G.D.S.)
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- Department of Health Sciences, Magna Graecia University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.D.); (S.P.N.); (C.P.); (A.L.); (R.C.); (L.G.); (E.R.); (G.D.S.)
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- Department of Health Sciences, Magna Graecia University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.D.); (S.P.N.); (C.P.); (A.L.); (R.C.); (L.G.); (E.R.); (G.D.S.)
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- Department of Health Sciences, Magna Graecia University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.D.); (S.P.N.); (C.P.); (A.L.); (R.C.); (L.G.); (E.R.); (G.D.S.)
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- Department of Health Sciences, Magna Graecia University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.D.); (S.P.N.); (C.P.); (A.L.); (R.C.); (L.G.); (E.R.); (G.D.S.)
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- Department of Health Sciences, Magna Graecia University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.D.); (S.P.N.); (C.P.); (A.L.); (R.C.); (L.G.); (E.R.); (G.D.S.)
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- Department of Health Sciences, Magna Graecia University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.D.); (S.P.N.); (C.P.); (A.L.); (R.C.); (L.G.); (E.R.); (G.D.S.)
- Azienda Ospedaliera di Cosenza, 87100 Cosenza, Italy;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +39-09-613627195
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The Assessment of Morphological Diversity of Colchicum luteum L., an Economically Important Threatened Medicinal Plant of Kashmir Himalaya. SUSTAINABILITY 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/su14031327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Colchicum luteum L. is an economically important and endangered medicinal plant of the Kashmir Himalaya. The corm extract is used for the treatment of rheumatism, gout, Behcet’s syndrome, and Alzheimer disease. It is also used extensively in plant breeding programs for the doubling of chromosomes. The present study was carried out for two years (2017–2019) to study the genetic diversity of C. luteum, an economically important and endangered medicinal plant of Kashmir Himalaya. The mapping of genetic diversity of C. luteum was estimated using Mahalanobis D2 analysis in the Aharbal (Kulgam), Dhara (Theed), and Baera Baal Hills (Harwan) of Kashmir Valley. The results showed the presence of 5 clusters for 30 populations. There were 17 populations in cluster-1, 1 in cluster-2, 2 in cluster-3, 3 in cluster-4, and 7 in cluster-5. The majority of the population was a group in cluster-1 followed by cluster-5. The maximum intracluster distance (D2 values) was observed in cluster-5 (46.55588) followed by cluster-3 (41.61871), and the maximum inter-cluster distance (D2 values) was observed in cluster-3 (46.55588) followed by cluster-5 (41.61871). Our study revealed that plant species possessed sufficient genetic diversity among the populations. Cluster-5 showed superiority in plant−1 respect of the maximum mean plant height (28.46 cm), leaf area (47.0 cm2), number of seeds plant−1 (26.85), corm length (5.15 cm), corm width (3.17 cm), fresh weight of corm plant (6.87 g), and dry weight of corm plant (4.81 g) as compared to other clusters. Out of five clusters, cluster-5 is a promising one for better yield and yield attributing traits. The present study revealed that plant species possessed sufficient genetic diversity among the populations as 30 populations were arranged into 5 clusters. Therefore, cluster-5, consisting of seven populations from the undisturbed area of Harwan, and consequently the populations from the same cluster can be multiplied for initiating a conservation and breeding program and can serve as a tool for the scientific community to evolve better contemporary varieties of C. luteum with profitable characters such as more yield of corms, etc. This will assist farmers, particularly the marginal farmers, to alleviate their income.
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No pharmaceutical products have been demonstrated to be safe and effective to specifically treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); therefore, the therapy administered to infected patients remains symptomatic and empiric. Alongside the development of new, often high-cost drugs, a different tactic is being applied in parallel, investigating long-established, inexpensive medications originally designed for a variety of diseases to study their potential in treating COVID-19. The skin is the largest organ of the human body. With more than 3,000 skin conditions identified, the specialty of dermatology offers a rich armamentarium of systemic therapeutic agents aimed to treat the various chronic immunologically mediated, metabolic, infectious, occupational, inherited, or paraneoplastic dermatoses. Dermatologists have extensive experience with many drugs that have demonstrated promising in vitro antiviral action (directly targeting the viral replication). Many of these drugs have been used as nonspecific immunosuppressive strategies, such as glucocorticoids, synthetic antimalarials, colchicine, or other immunomodulators, and a number of targeted therapeutics have been directed at controlling hyperinflammatory processes similar to the "cytokine storm" associated with COVID-19 infection. We discuss several dermatologic drugs that have already been used or may have a promising role in the treatment of COVID-19.
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DAYE M, TEMİZ SA, ARSLAN Ş, YOSUNKAYA A, GÜMÜŞ S, UYANIK O, NURŞEN HAB. Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis in a Patient with Allopurinol, Colchicine and Alcohol Use. JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE CASE REPORTS 2020. [DOI: 10.33706/jemcr.684184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Sardana K, Sinha S, Sachdeva S. Colchicine in Dermatology: Rediscovering an Old Drug with Novel Uses. Indian Dermatol Online J 2020; 11:693-700. [PMID: 33235833 PMCID: PMC7678539 DOI: 10.4103/idoj.idoj_475_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2020] [Revised: 07/05/2020] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Colchicine is an anti-inflammatory agent which has been used for decades in the treatment of gout. The drug has a number of dermatological indications like Psoriasis, Sweet's syndrome, aphthosis, Behcet's disease, erythema nodosum, leukocytoclastic vasculitis and is consistently effective in neutrophilic disorders. Thought it is an affordable with minimal side effects, It has remained underutilized. However, it has novel uses and is being considered in COVID-19 due to its action on IL-1β and IL-6. This article presents a concise and up-to-date review focusing on its mechanisms of action and indications.
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- Kabir Sardana
- Department of Dermatology, STD and Leprosy, ABVIMS and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Dermatology, STD and Leprosy, ABVIMS and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Dermatology, STD and Leprosy, ABVIMS and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India
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