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Local Knowledge and Conservation Priorities of Medicinal Plants near a Protected Area in Brazil. [PDF]

Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2019
We investigated the influence of socioeconomic factors (age, gender, and occupation) on the local knowledge of medicinal plants in the Araripe National Forest, Brazil, and the priority of conservation of the species as perceived by people. Additionally, priority species for in situ conservation were identified by calculating conservation priority (CP).
da Silva NF, Hanazaki N, Albuquerque UP, Almeida Campos JL, Feitosa IS, Araújo EL.   +5 more
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Ethnopharmacological Studies for the Development of New Drugs. [PDF]

Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2018
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018.
Carvalho JCT, Fernandes CP, Amado JRR, Navarrete A, Quintans-Júnior LJ.   +4 more
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The "hidden diversity" of medicinal plants in northeastern Brazil: diagnosis and prospects for conservation and biological prospecting. [PDF]

Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2013
Increases in ethnobotanical studies and knowledge in recent decades have led to a greater and more accurate interpretation of the overall patterns related to the use of medicinal plants, allowing for a clear identification of some ecological and cultural phenomena.
Cavalcanti DR, Albuquerque UP.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Medicinal plants used as antitumor agents in Brazil: an ethnobotanical approach. [PDF]

Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2011
In this study, we describe the medicinal plants that have been reported to be antitumor agents and that have been used in ethnobotanic research in Brazil to answer the following questions: what is the abundance of plants reported to be antitumor in Brazil?
de Melo JG, Santos AG, de Amorim EL, do Nascimento SC, de Albuquerque UP.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Modelagem e distribuição potencial de espécies arbóreas relevantes para a dinâmica sociocultural e ecológica do Parque Nacional de Sete Cidades, Piauí, Brasil

Sociedade & Natureza, 2020
A Modelagem de Nicho Ecológico é importante ferramenta para estabelecer predições de distribuição de espécies no espaço geográfico. O Parque Nacional de Sete Cidades, no Piauí, Brasil, é uma Unidade de Conservação Federal de Proteção Integral, com 6.221 ...
José Américo Gaia, Bartolomeu Israel de Souza, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena, Ramon Santos Souza, Carolina Lima Bezerra Gaia   +4 more
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Angiosperms from the Araripe National Forest, Ceará, Brazil [PDF]

Check List, 2012
This study provides a species list of the angiosperms from the Araripe National Forest (ANF) in the south part of Ceará state, northeastern Brazil. The floristic survey recorded 188 species from 55 Angiosperm families. The most species-rich families were
Suelma Ribeiro-Silva, Marcelo Medeiros, Beatriz Gomes, Emídia Seixas, Maria da Silva   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

ATIVIDADE BIOLÓGICA DE EXTRATOS DE FOLHAS DE CARYOCAR CORIACEUM WITTM. : ESTUDO IN VITRO [PDF]

Cadernos de Cultura e Ciência, 2012
Caryocar coriaceum (Caryocaraceae), popularmente conhecida como pequi, e uma especie endemica da Chapada do Araripe, Ceara. Na medicina popular seu fruto e comumente utilizado para tratamento de infeccoes e inflamacoes, propriedades tambem demonstradas em modelos experimentais. Entretanto, existem poucos estudos sobre a folha desta planta. Dessa forma,
Sandra Mara Pimentel Duavy, Lidianny Juca da Silva, José Galberto Martins da Costa, Fabíola Fernandes Galvão Rodrigues   +3 more
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Taxonomic Distribution of Medicinal Plants for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Cue to Novel Drugs

International Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder manifested by decline in memory and mild cognitive impairment leading to dementia. Despite global occurrence of AD, the severity and hence onset of dementia vary among different regions, which was correlated with the customary use of medicinal herbs and exposure level to the causatives.
Muhammad Kamran, Rehana Kousar, Shakir Ullah, Siraj Khan, Muhammad Farooq Umer, Haroon Ur Rashid, Zakir Khan, Muhammad Ijaz Khan Khattak, Mujeeb Ur Rehman, Francesco Panza   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thermophysical properties of the pequi pulp in different concentrations

Bioscience Journal, 2016
The pequi fruit (Caryocar coriaceum Wittm) has a great economic interest, regarding the use of its fruits in cooking as a source of vitamins and extraction of oils for the manufacture of cosmetics.
Elisabete Piancó de Sousa, Alexandre José de Melo Queiroz, Rossana Maria Feitosa de Figueirêdo, Joyce Edja Aguiar dos Santos, Danielle Martins Lemos   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

FENOLOGIA DE CARYOCAR CORIACEUM WITTM. CARYOCARACEAE, OCORRENTES NA CHAPADA DO ARARIPE – CRATO-CE-BRASIL [PDF]

Cadernos de Cultura e Ciência, 2013
A fenologia de Caryocar coriaceum foi estudada em duas areas de cerradao e duas de cerrado, ocorrentes na Chapada do Araripe Crato-CE, no periodo de janeiro de 2002 a dezembro de 2003.  Um total de 40 especimes foi acompanhado mensalmente registrando-se a ocorrencia das fenofases: enfolhamento/desfolhamento, floracao e frutificacao.
Maria Arlene Pessoa da Silva, Sebastião Medeiros Filho, Antônia Eliene Duarte, Ana Cleide Alcântara Morais Mendonça, Antônio Carlito Bezerra dos Santos, Marta Maria De Almeida Souza   +5 more
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