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Seeds of Amazonian plants [PDF]

Ann Bot, 2012
In the highly diverse flora of the Amazon, proper identification of seeds and fruits may require additional plant material, such as leaves, stems and preferably also flowers. This is, however, often not possible: tropical trees may be difficult to climb up and normally no flowers are available during fruiting.
I. Ferraz
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Antiretroviral activity of Amazonian plants [PDF]

Retrovirology, 2011
BackgroundThe Amazon region displays a rich and diverse biotaencompassing more than 50,000 botanical species [1]. Afew medicinal plants commonly utilized by local peoplehas been studied concerning its pharmacological proper-ties. New antiretroviral drugs are on demand, mainly indeveloping countries and particularly in Brazil, whichexhibit an exuberant ...
da Mata E, Gonçalves M, Segovia J, Bezerra R, Carvalho J, Kanzaki L.   +5 more
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Antioxidant activity and peroxidase inhibition of Amazonian plants extracts traditionally used as anti-inflammatory. [PDF]

BMC Complement Altern Med, 2016
BackgroundThe Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world and is home to a rich biodiversity of medicinal plants. Several of these plants are used by the local population for the treatment of diseases, many of those with probable anti-inflammatory ...
de Vargas FS, Almeida PD, de Boleti AP, Pereira MM, de Souza TP, de Vasconcellos MC, Nunez CV, Pohlit AM, Lima ES.   +8 more
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Review of Biological Activities of Some Rare Oils from Amazonian Plants [PDF]

Metabolites
Background/Objectives: A great biodiversity of compounds from Brazilian medicinal plants are considered to be a promising source for biological activities in the cosmetics and pharmaceuticals sectors.
Luana Merckling-Almeida da Silva, Nicolas Merckling, Enrico Bigi, Katiane Cunha de Melo, Iuliana Popa   +4 more
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Steroidal Sapogenins in Amazonian Plants [PDF]

Nature, 1954
THE relatively simple method of analysis recently described by Wall, Eddy, McClennan and Klumpp1 for the analysis of plant samples for steroidal sapogenins inspired me to search for them in the rich Amazonian flora. Dr. Joao Murca Pires, chief of the Botanical Section of this Institute, collected various plant samples which might contain steroidal ...
R. Altman
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Revisiting Amazonian Plants for Skin Care and Disease

Cosmetics, 2017
This review concerns five species of trees and palm trees that occur as dominant plants in different rainforest areas of the Amazon region. Due to their abundance, these species can be exploited as sustainable sources of botanical materials and include ...
Bruno Burlando, Laura Cornara
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Antimicrobial activity of amazonian medicinal plants [PDF]

SpringerPlus, 2013
Abstract Objectives The aqueous extracts of currently utilized Amazonian medicinal plants were assayed in vitro searching for antimicrobial activity against human and animal pathogenic microorganisms. Methods Medium resuspended lyophilized aqueous extracts of different ...
Oliveira, Amanda A, Segovia, Jorge FO, Sousa, Vespasiano YK, Mata, Elida CG, Gonçalves, Magda CA, Bezerra, Roberto M, Junior, Paulo OM, Kanzaki, Luís IB   +7 more
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LAY USE OF AMAZONIAN PLANTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS [PDF]

Acta Amazonica, 1997
The Brazilian State of Amazonas has a high incidence of Tuberculosis, 91.4 in 10,000 habitants (SESAU, 1994) and resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are frequently being found in the region (SALEM et.al, 1990).
Christine STOREY, Júlia Ignez SALEM
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Frugivory in Canopy Plants in a Western Amazonian Forest: Dispersal Systems, Phylogenetic Ensembles and Keystone Plants. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Frugivory is a widespread mutualistic interaction in which frugivores obtain nutritional resources while favoring plant recruitment through their seed dispersal services.
Pablo R Stevenson, Andrés Link, Sebastian González-Caro, María Fernanda Torres-Jiménez   +3 more
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Towards culturally inclusive healthcare in Peru: Mapping epistemic concepts in contemporary Indigenous Amazonian medicine-Traditional healers' perspectives. [PDF]

PLOS Global Public Health
Peru is among Latin American countries with the largest Indigenous population, yet ethnical health disparities persist, particularly in the Amazon region which comprises 60% of the national territory.
Ilana Berlowitz, Maria Amalia Pesantes, Cynthia Cárdenas Palacios, Chantal Martin-Soelch, Ursula Wolf, Caroline Maake   +5 more
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