Areca nut is the most widely used psychoactive substance and an important environmental risk factor for development of oral premalignant lesions and cancer. Arecoline, the major alkaloid of areca nut, has been known to cause cytotoxicity and genotoxicity in mammalian cells in vivo and in vitro and even contributes to carcinogenicity. However, the susceptible genes accounting for arecoline-induc...

Objective: Oral Submucous Fibrosis (OSF) is a precancerous condition and is mainly associated with the chewing of areca nut. This study was undertaken to correlate the etiological factors (duration, frequency, style and chewing habit) associated with OSF with clinical grading and histological staging. Methodology: A total of 50 clinically and histopathologically diagnosed cases of OSF were incl...

© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Chewing betel quid or the combination of chewing betel quid and smoking cigarettes is associated with an increased risk of oral squamous cell carcinoma. The composition of betel quid varies with geographic location. In Taiwan betel quid is composed of areca nut (Areca catechu, an Asian tropical palm), slaked lime, and the inflorescence or lea...

N Gokarneshan* and S Praveena Author Affiliations Department of Fashion Design Arts, Hindustan Institute Technology Science, Chennai, India Received: April 12, 2022 | Published: 19, Corresponding author: Gokarneshan, DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2022.43.006886

Areca catechu L. belongs to the Arecaceae which has been widely developed as a raw material for cosmetics industries. nut contains many bioactive compounds, one of is anti-inflammatory. In this study, anti-inflammatory activity betel extract was tested using Red Blood Cell membrane stability method. The results phytochemical screening showed that areca flavonoid compounds. Partitioning carried ...

Arecanut seed has been used for medicinal properties more than 2000 years in South Asian countries. In fact, various pharmacological activities have been found in the arecanut seed extract or its constituents. Prevention of oxidative stress induced diseases is an urgent problem in all over the world. Traditional use of the plant for medicinal properties is to be documented for their possible us...

AIM This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to critically appraised data from comparable studies leading to quantitative assessment of any independent association between use of oral smokeless tobacco in any form, of betel quid without tobacco and of areca nut with incidence of oral cancer in South Asia and the Pacific. METHODS Studies (case control and/or cohort) were identified by se...