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

open access: yesEvid 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   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Prospecção científica e tecnológica de Caryocar coriaceum Wittm.

open access: yesResearch, Society and Development, 2021
Caryocar coriaceum Wittm. é uma espécie frutífera, nativa e endêmica do cerrado brasileiro, amplamente utilizada no ramo alimentício e medicinal. Nessa pesquisa, objetivou-se realizar uma prospecção científica e tecnológica sobre C. coriaceum a partir da análise de patentes e artigos científicos indexados em bases de dados nacionais (INPI) e ...
Vanessa Fernanda da Silva Sousa   +2 more
openaire   +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

open access: yesSociedade & 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Angiosperms from the Araripe National Forest, Ceará, Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesCheck 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   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Taxonomic Distribution of Medicinal Plants for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Cue to Novel Drugs

open access: yesInternational 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   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thermophysical properties of the pequi pulp in different concentrations

open access: yesBioscience 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   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Modulation of antibiotic activity by the hydroalcoholic extract from leaves of Caryocar coriaceum WITTM

open access: yesNatural Product Research, 2017
The aim of this study was to identify the presence of tannins, phenols and flavonoids on the hydroalcoholic extract of Caryocar coriaceum leaves (HECCL) and to determine the antioxidant and antibacterial activity of this extract. The extract was tested alone (1024–1 μg/mL) or associated (MIC/8) with several antibiotics in order to identify any ...
Luís J. de Lacerda Neto   +7 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Caracterização física de frutos do pequizeiro nativos da chapada do Araripe-CE Physical characteristics of pequi fruits from chapada do Araripe-CE

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2009
O trabalho teve como objetivo a caracterização física de frutos de pequizeiros (Caryocar coriaceum Wittm.) nativos da Chapada do Araripe, sul do Estado do Ceará, a fim de quantificar a variabilidade entre as plantas e identificar materiais de interesse ...
Maria Elisabeth Barros de Oliveira   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pequi kernel oil extraction by hydraulic pressing and its characterization. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The seed by-products of pequi pulp processing have a kernel in its core which is not used due to the difficulty of its extraction from the spinous endocarp. However, this kernel has high quality oil which can be used for human consumption.
LIMA, J. R.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Comportamento reológico e efeito da temperatura da polpa de pequi em diferentes concentrações

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Food Technology, 2014
Apesar do elevado potencial econômico da polpa pequi ainda são escassos os trabalhos sobre suas propriedades físicas utilizadas em projetos e processos industriais.
Elisabete Piancó de Sousa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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