Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Adipocyte Dysfunction Effects of Latex and Root Extracts.

Low-grade chronic inflammation and adipocyte dysfunction are prominent risk factors of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in obesity. Thus, prevention of inflammation and adipocyte dysfunction could be one possible approach to mitigate T2DM development. Several species have been used in traditional medicine for ameliorating inflammation and T2DM.

Health-promoting bioactivity and in vivo genotoxicity evaluation of a hemiepiphyte fig, .

species have been used as a typical component in food and folk medicine in Asia for centuries. However, little is known regarding the bioactivity and genotoxicity of the recently identified (FD), an indigenous plant of the tropical evergreen rain forest. FD is unique from other species because of its highly sought-after red-brown latex.