Surface Active Agents and Their Health-Promoting Properties: Molecules of Multifunctional Significance

Pharmaceutics

MihalisI. Panayiotidis¹  Ariel Klavaris²  Aglaia Pappa³  Ioannis Anestopoulos³  DespoinaEugenia Kiousi³  Alex Galanis³  Karina Salek⁴  StephenR. Euston⁴ 

[1] Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK;Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2109 Nicosia, Cyprus;Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece;Institute of Mechanical, Process & Energy Engineering, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK;

关键词: surface active agents;    surfactants;    health promotion;    anti-microbial;    anti-oxidant;    anti-viral;   

DOI  :  10.3390/pharmaceutics12070688

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Surface active agents (SAAs) are molecules with the capacity to adsorb to solid surfaces and/or fluid interfaces, a property that allows them to act as multifunctional ingredients (e.g., wetting and dispersion agents, emulsifiers, foaming and anti-foaming agents, lubricants, etc.) in a widerange of the consumer products of various industrial sectors (e.g., pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care, detergents, food, etc.). Given their widespread utilization, there is a continuously growing interest to explore their role in consumer products (relevant to promoting human health) and how such information can be utilized in order to synthesize better chemical derivatives. In this review article, weaimed to provide updated information on synthetic and biological (biosurfactants) SAAs and their health-promoting properties (e.g., anti-microbial, anti-oxidant, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer and anti-aging) in an attempt to better define some of the underlying mechanism(s) by which they exert such properties.

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