saw palmetto berry and Reduced Urinary Dysfunction

• Pharmacological effects of saw palmetto extract in the lower urinary tract.

  • 2009-03
  • Review
  • Acta pharmacologica Sinica 30(3)
  • • Mayumi Suzuki
    • Yoshihiko Ito
    • Tomomi Fujino
    • Masayuki Abe
    • Keizo Umegaki
    • Satomi Onoue
    • Hiroshi Noguchi
    • Shizuo Yamada

  • PubMed: 19262550
  • DOI: 10.1038/aps.2009.1

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Urinary Dysfunction

  • Low evidence

  the improvement of voiding symptoms in patients taking SPE may arise from its binding to pharmacologically relevant receptors in the lower urinary tract, such as alpha(1)-adrenoceptors, muscarinic cholinoceptors, 1,4-dihyropyridine receptors and vanilloid receptors.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No