Therapeutic Promise of Natural Antioxidants in Redox Regulation

Phytochemical research has attracted the attention of researchers in the field of biomedical and biotechnological research and explored a new era of drug discovery. Focus of these studies is to minimize or overcome the side effects of synthetic drugs.  It aims to find out the equivalent natural molecules that can replace the drugs having harmful side effects on human health.

Advances in the organic and analytical chemistry during last century offered new vision towards the phytochemical research. Investigations of various molecules through different biochemical and biophysical methods can easily reveals the structural and functional properties of the compounds and have opened the new avenues in natural drug discovery. These new techniques are more competent to isolate, characterize and analyze the active principles from these medicinal plants and other natural resources. Thus, the phytochemical research has proved to have a pivotal role in drug discovery.