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Development of Nanoemulsions to Enhance the Antileishmanial Activity of Copaifera paupera Oleoresins

BioMed Research International, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018
Based on the ethnopharmacological evidences about the antileishmanial activity of Copaifera spp. oleoresins, the effects of crude extracts and fractions of oleoresin of two specimens from Copaifera paupera were evaluated on Leishmania amazonensis and Leishmania infantum strains.
Igor A. Rodrigues, Aline de S. Ramos, Deborah Q. Falcão, José Luiz P. Ferreira, Silvia L. Basso, Jefferson Rocha de A. Silva, Ana Claudia F. Amaral, Manish K. Chourasia   +7 more
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Development and Validation of a Rapid and Reliable RP-HPLC-PDA Method for the Quantification of Six Diterpenes in Copaifera duckei, Copaifera reticulata and Copaifera multijuga Oleoresins

Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, 2017
Oleoresins from Copaifera species are extensively used in folk medicine in Brazil, which are employed mainly in the production of cosmetic formulations in Brazil, North America and Europe. Considering the lack of validated analytical methods for the analyses of diterpenes in Copaifera oleoresins, it was developed a validated and reliable reversed-phase
Luiza Carneiro, Thamires Bianchi, Jonas da Silva, Larissa Oliveira, Carly Borges, Danieli Lemes, Jairo Bastos, Rodrigo Veneziani, Sérgio Ambrósio   +8 more
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Letalidade em Culex quinquefasciatus de compostos secundários de espécies do Cerrado tocantinense: Copaifera reticulata, Pterodon emarginatus

Journal of Biotechnology and Biodiversity, 2022
Os recursos florestais são de grande importância na busca por produtos com viés ambiental no caminho do desenvolvimento sustentável com a extração de recursos nativos disponíveis principalmente no cerrado Tocantinense sendo que também possuem metabólicos secundários com fotoquímicos promissores contra mosquitos transmissores de doenças.
Thiago César Santos, Damiana Beatriz Silva, Ana Cristina De Menezes, Dalmarcia de Souza Carlos Mourão, Augustus Caeser Franke Portella, Marcos Giongo   +5 more
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Alterações ultraestruturais em larvas de Aedes aegypti submetidas ao diterpeno labdano, isolado de Copaifera reticulata (Leguminosae), e à uma fração rica em taninos de Magonia pubescens (Sapindaceae)

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2011
INTRODUÇÃO: Dengue é um importante problema de saúde pública, em vários países, e tem como principal vetor o Aedes aegypti, mosquito mais adaptado às áreas urbanizadas.
Cleyde Ferreira Barreto Valotto, Heloisa Helena Garcia da Silva, Gláucia Cavasin, Regina Geris, Edson Rodrigues Filho, Ionizete Garcia da Silva   +5 more
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Medicinal Plants from Northeastern Brazil against Alzheimer’s Disease

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been linked with oxidative stress, acetylcholine deficiency in the brain, and inflammatory processes. In the northeast region of Brazil, various plants are used to treat several diseases associated with these processes; then an antioxidant test was performed with those plants in a previous work and twelve species with ...
Alexandre Batista Penido, Selene Maia De Morais, Alan Bezerra Ribeiro, Daniela Ribeiro Alves, Ana Livya Moreira Rodrigues, Leonardo Hunaldo dos Santos, Jane Eire Silva Alencar de Menezes, Ayodele J. Akinyemi   +7 more
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Análise físico-química do óleo-resina e variabilidade genética de copaíba na Floresta Nacional do Tapajós

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2012
O objetivo deste trabalho foi caracterizar o óleo-resina da copaíba (Copaifera reticulata) e estimar, por meio de marcadores microssatélites, a variabilidade genética da espécie na Floresta Nacional do Tapajós, PA.
Ederly Santos Silva, Caroline de Souza Mathias, Milena Campelo Freitas de Lima, Valdir Florêncio da Veiga Junior, Doriane Picanço Rodrigues, Charles Roland Clement   +5 more
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Brazilian Amazon Traditional Medicine and the Treatment of Difficult to Heal Leishmaniasis Wounds with Copaifera

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
The present study describes the use of the traditional species Copaifera for treating wounds, such as ulcers scarring and antileishmanial wounds. It also relates phytochemical studies, evaluation of the leishmanicidal activity, and toxicity. The species of Copaifera with a higher incidence in the Amazon region are Copaifera officinalis, Copaifera ...
Kelly Cristina Oliveira de Albuquerque, Andreza do Socorro Silva da Veiga, João Victor da Silva e Silva, Heliton Patrick Cordovil Brigido, Erica Patrícia dos Reis Ferreira, Erica Vanessa Souza Costa, Andrey Moacir do Rosário Marinho, Sandro Percário, Maria Fâni Dolabela, Chiranjib Pal   +9 more
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Acute Oral Mammalian Toxicity and Effect of Solvents on Efficacy of Maerua edulis (Gilg. & Ben.) De Wolf against Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) decoloratus Koch, 1844 (Acarina: Ixodidae), Tick Larvae

BioMed Research International, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016
Efficacy and toxicity of aqueous and organic solvents extracts of Maerua edulis against ticks and mice, respectively, were determined. Ground leaves were extracted separately using cold water, cold water plus surfactant (1% v/v liquid soap), hot water plus surfactant, hexane, or methanol to make 25% w/v stock solutions from which serial dilutions of 5,
Emmanuel T. Nyahangare, Brighton M. Mvumi, Tatenda Maramba, Carlos A. N. Ramos   +3 more
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O gênero Copaifera (Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae) na Amazônia brasileira

Rodriguésia
RESUMO O gênero Copaifera está presente na África (4 spp.), América Central (4 spp.), América do Sul (cerca de 37 spp.) e, provavelmente, na Ásia (1 sp.).
Regina C. V. Martins-da-Silva, Jorge Fontella Pereira, Haroldo Cavalcante de Lima   +2 more
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The “Hidden Diversity” of Medicinal Plants in Northeastern Brazil: Diagnosis and Prospects for Conservation and Biological Prospecting

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 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.
Deyvson Rodrigues Cavalcanti, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves   +2 more
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