BACKGROUND
Among the various phenolics metabolites, ferulic acid is considered as the promising mitigating, restorative and antioxidant agent. The ferulic acid is for the mostly found in natural products, vegetables, for example, tomatoes, sweet corn, and rice grain. Phytochemicals are utilized in the treatment of human ailments and these are derived from the dietary compounds.
OBJECTIVE
The present review widely argued the calming restorative capability of ferulic acid alongside the scientific evidences and its proposed mechanism for activity. Furthermore, we provided the main practical points for its use of ferulic acid in oxidative damages during various diseases. Additionally, the relevant patents on ferulic acid with various therapeutic potential are also summarized.
METHODS
The approach consisted to search several resources, including theses, technical reports, web-based scientific databases such as publications on PubMed, Science-direct, Springer, PROTA, Google Scholar, and other allied databases. Thus, recent patent regarding role of ferulic acid therapeutic potenitial have been discussed.
CONCLUSION
Ferulic acids are known to contrarily down-manage an assortment of extracellular and intracellular atomic targets related to infection movement. Various patents on ferulic acid based moieties have been accounted for from 2018. The ferulic acids have a wide scope of impacts against different infections like a malignant growth, diabetes, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative. The current review deals with the antioxidant property of ferulic acid and the recent patent describe the role of ferulic acid against human diseases.