Health benefits of phytochemicals from Brazilian native foods and plants: Antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-cancer, and risk factors of metabolic/endocrine disorders …

APA de Carvalho, CA Conte-Junior - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Brazil has over 40,000 varied plant species rich in phytochemicals, expressing
20% of the world's flora. Due to its immense diversity, Brazil presents a high potential to …

A review on antimicrobial botanicals, phytochemicals and natural resistance modifying agents from Apocynaceae family: Possible therapeutic approaches against …

U Anand, S Nandy, A Mundhra, N Das… - Drug Resistance …, 2020 - Elsevier
Accelerated emergence of drug-resistant pathogenic microbes, their unbeatable virulence
and a gradual loss of efficacy of currently used antimicrobial agents over the last decade …

Studies on activities and chemical characterization of medicinal plants in search for new Antimalarials: a ten year review on Ethnopharmacology

IP Ceravolo, AC Aguiar, JO Adebayo… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Malaria is an endemic disease that affected 229 million people and caused 409 thousand
deaths, in 2019. Disease control is based on early diagnosis and specific treatment with …

Evaluation of acute and subacute toxicity of ethanolic extract and fraction of alkaloids from bark of Aspidosperma nitidum in mice

HPC Brígido, ELP Varela, ARQ Gomes, MLC Bastos… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
This study investigated the acute and subacute toxicity of the ethanolic extract (EE) and
alkaloid fraction (FA) from A. nitidum. The EE was obtained from trunk bark with ethanol, FA …

[HTML][HTML] Medicinal plants as a fight against murine blood-stage malaria

MA Dkhil, S Al-Quraishy, EM Al-Shaebi… - Saudi Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective Malaria is an infectious parasitic disease affecting most of countries worldwide.
Due to antimalarial drug resistance, researchers are seeking to find another safe efficient …

[HTML][HTML] Biotechnological potential of carotenoids produced by extremophilic microorganisms and application prospects for the cosmetics industry

TCD Mendes-Silva, RF da Silva Andrade… - Advances in …, 2020 - scirp.org
Carotenoids are isoprenoid pigments used in food, chemical, textile, pharmaceutical, and
cosmetic industries. They act not only as dyes and provitamins A but also have antioxidants …

[PDF][PDF] Medicinal plants and animals of an important seasonal dry forest in Brazil.

UP Albuquerque, AL de Brito… - Ethnobiology & …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Research performed in recent years indicates that efforts are still needed to understand the
advances in the Caatinga, an important dry seasonal forest, and identify its potential for …

Sustainable isolation of natural dyes from plant wastes for textiles

S Adeel, N Amin, T Ahmad, F Batool… - Recycling from waste …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sustainability is nowadays the global demand due to the spread of awareness about the
lethal effects of synthetic dyes and their dyed products. The revival of natural dyes is due to …

Seasonality and Activity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Rhizosphere of Endemic Tree Species

ÉO Lambais, TAF de Souza, P Késsia… - Journal of Basic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study analyzed arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) activity and soil chemical properties
in Aspidosperma pyrifolium, Bauhinia ungulata, Caesalpinia pyramidalis, and Caesalpinia …

Brazilian plants with antimalarial activity: A review of the period from 2011 to 2022

MBV Dos Santos, AB de Oliveira… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance Malaria continues to be a serious global public health
problem in subtropical and tropical countries of the world. The main drugs used in the …