TY - JOUR
T1 - Surface active agents and their health-promoting properties
T2 - Molecules of multifunctional significance
AU - Anestopoulos, Ioannis
AU - Kiousi, Despoina Eugenia
AU - Klavaris, Ariel
AU - Galanis, Alex
AU - Salek, Karina
AU - Euston, Stephen R.
AU - Pappa, Aglaia
AU - Panayiotidis, Mihalis I.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research and the APC were funded by the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020, under Grant Agreement No. 635340 MARISURF.
PY - 2020/7/21
Y1 - 2020/7/21
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Anti-aging
KW - Anti-cancer
KW - Anti-inflammatory
KW - Anti-microbial
KW - Anti-oxidant
KW - Antiviral
KW - Health promotion
KW - Surface active agents
KW - Surfactants
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088159237&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/pharmaceutics12070688
DO - 10.3390/pharmaceutics12070688
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85088159237
SN - 1999-4923
VL - 12
JO - Pharmaceutics
JF - Pharmaceutics
IS - 7
M1 - 688
ER -
