In recent decades, both asthma prevalence and incidence have been increasing worldwide,
not only due to the genetic background, but mainly because of the effect of a wide number of …

The present study seeks to increase the knowledge of the chemical and nutritional
characteristics of the species in the Caatinga (semi-arid region from northeastern Brazil) and …

The objective of this study was the production of innovative functional cookies enriched with
two different sizes (100 and 28 mesh) xiquexique flour by substitution ratio 50% of wheat …

The Cactaceae family is composed by 124 genera and about 1438 species. Pilosocereus
gounellei, popularly known in Brazil as xique-xique, is used in folk medicine to treat prostate …

Abstract Ethnopharmacological relevance Pilosocereus gounellei Cactaceae), popularly
known as “xique xique”, is a species native from Caatinga region of Northeast Brazil, which …

Microsatellite transferability was used as a method to examine the genetic diversity and
structure of populations in Pilosocereus gounellei seedling samples that have potential to …

Brazil is one of the main centers of biological heterogeneity of the Cactaceae family
vegetables, representing around 33% of the world's genera (Zappi et al. 2015). These cacti …

Cactaceae have important nutritional composition and physicochemical characteristics,
although their use in human food remains little recognized. The present study aimed to …

Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis was used to evaluate DNA
polymorphism in Pilosocereus gounellei with the aim of differentiating samples grown in …

Since there is a hypothesis that qualitative and/or quantitative differ ences of specific
proteins may be associated with morphological variants in cacti of the Cereus genus …