The Brazilian Cerrado biome consists of a great variety of endemic species with several bioactive compounds, and Anadenanthera peregrina (L.) Speg is a promising species. In this study, we aimed to perform phytochemical characterization and evaluate the antioxidant and antibacterial activities against St...
Mormodica charantia (Curcubitaceae) is a plant with great medicinal potential, also used as an alternative of mosquitoes control as demonstrated by previous studies. We evaluated the larvicidal activity of crude extracts of ethyl acetate, methanol and hexane from flowers and fruits of M. charantia agains...
Cordeiro, M F;
Nunes, T R S;
Bezerra, F G;
Damasco, P K M;
Silva, W A V;
Ferreira, M R A;
Magalhães, O M C;
Soares, L A L;
Cavalcanti, I M F;
Pitta, M G R;
Rêgo, M J B M.
Plectranthus barbatus Andrews (Lamiaceae) is widely distributed in the world and has a range of popular therapeutic indications. This work aimed to evaluate the phytochemical characterization of two leaf extracts of P. barbatus, and their antimicrobial, antineoplastic and immunomodulatory potential. Afte...
Plants possess a renewable source of metabolites with enormous chemical structural diversity, which may have potential therapeutic relevance. Furthermore, this chemical diversity favors the possibility of finding new and different chemical constituents with antimicrobial, antioxidant and anti-tumor activ...
Mosquito-borne diseases result in the loss of life and economy, primarily in subtropical and tropical countries, and the emerging resistance to insecticides is increasing this threat. Botanical insecticides are promising substitutes for synthetic insecticides. This study evaluated the larvicidal and grow...
Brahmi, N;
Feriani, A;
Ben Ali, M;
Hedfi, A;
Elleuch, A;
Ismail, I A;
Albogami, B;
Saif, T;
Talarmin, H;
El Feki, A;
Allagui, M S.
The current investigation was carried out to estimate the protective effect of aqueous extract of Cheatomorpha gracilis (AEC) against High fat Diet (HFD) induced liver damage in mice. The results of the in vitro study showed that AEC have higher antioxidant capacities in the DPPH and hydroxyl radical-sca...
Aslam, N;
Hayat, S;
Ali, T;
Waseem, M;
Siddique, M H;
Afzal, M;
Muzammil, A;
Naz, G;
Sarwar, A;
Muzammil, S.
High resistance to antimicrobials is associated with biofilm formation responsible for infectious microbes to withstand severe conditions. Therefore, new alternatives are necessary as biofilm inhibitors to control infections. In this study, the antimicrobial and antibiofilm activities of Fagonia indica e...
Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) is an ecofriendly, cost-effective and promising approach for discovery of novel therapeutics. The aim of the current work was to biogenic synthesize, characterize AgNPs using seed extracts of three economically important varieties of date palm (Iklas, Irziz...
Pacheco, A G M;
Pacheco, E J;
Macedo, L A R O;
Silva, J C;
Lima-Saraiva, S R G;
Barros, V P;
Oliveira-Junior, R G;
Branco, A;
Quintans, J S S;
Quintans-Junior, L J;
Coutinho, H D M;
Menezes, I R A;
Almeida, J R G S.
Hymenaea martiana is a species popularly known in Northeastern Brazil as “jatobá” and used in folk medicine to treat pain and inflammation. The aim of this work was to evaluate the antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activity of H. martiana. In the present study, we carried out an investigation ab...
In this research, some plant seeds powder was evaluated to find their potential effect to rule diseases of food poisoning. Antimicrobial effect of five plant seeds was examined contra Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella. pneumonia and Candida albicans by using well diffus...
