Hindawi Publishing Corporation Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity Volume 2016, Article ID 3571614, 10 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3571614 Review Article Sinapic Acid and Its Derivatives as Medicine in Oxidative Stress-Induced Diseases and Aging Chunye Chen Key Laboratory of Biorheological Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Bioengineering College, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China Correspondence should be addressed to Chunye Chen;
[email protected] Received 29 October 2014; Revised 2 January 2015; Accepted 12 January 2015 Academic Editor: Mat´ıas Mosqueira Copyright © 2016 Chunye Chen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Sinapic acid (3,5-dimethoxy-4-hydroxycinnamic acid) is an orally bioavailable phytochemical, extensively found in spices, citrus and berry fruits, vegetables, cereals, and oilseed crops and is known to exhibit antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antimutagenic, antiglycemic, neuroprotective, and antibacterial activities. The literature reveals that sinapic acid is a bioactive phenolic acid and has the potential to attenuate various chemically induced toxicities. This minireview is an effort to summarize the available literature about pharmacokinetic, therapeutic, and protective potential of this versatile molecule in health related areas. 1. Introduction Sinapicacidexistsinbothfreeandesterform;some esters are sinapoyl esters, sinapine (sinapoylcholine), and As a result of metabolic processes, there is continuous pro- sinapoyl malate [8, 9]. Sinapic acid is a phytochemical found duction of reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as hydroxyl in various edible plants such as spices, citrus and berry fruits, radicals [1], in human body.