Guarana seeds have the highest caffeine concentration among plants accumulating purine
alkaloids, but in contrast with coffee and tea, practically nothing is known about caffeine …

Advanced glycation end‐products (AGEs) are considered potent molecules capable of
promoting neuronal cell death and participating in the development of neurodegenerative …

Medicinal plants have been of great importance to human health care since the advent of
medicine. A huge array of molecules has been obtained from these phytopharmaceutical …

Guaraná powder is an antiobesogenic supplement; however, its effect on inflammatory
biomarkers has not yet been determined. Therefore, this study analysed whether guaraná …

Endophytes are microorganisms that inhabit the interior of plant tissues without harming
their hosts. This definition includes internal colonists with apparently neutral behavior …

Guarana seeds are described to contain starch as the main constituent. In this work, two
fractions of starch were isolated from guarana seeds using dimethyl sulfoxide. The samples …

Guarana has great agricultural potential and is largely used therapeutically and in the
production of non-alcoholic energy drinks. Genomic and proteomic studies are crucial to …

Repeat blocks, microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) can produce good co-
dominant molecular markers for genetic diversity analysis and the determination of self …

Os fungos produzem uma variedade de metabólitos com aplicações na indústria e na
medicina, ao mesmo tempo que podem ser patógenos humanos. O Paracoccidioides lutzii é …

Em Biologia Computacional, eventos mutacionais afetando grandes porções de um
genoma são estudados na área de Rearranjo de Genomas. Particularmente, a transposição …