Revista: | Quimica nova |
Base de datos: | PERIÓDICA |
Número de sistema: | 000313182 |
ISSN: | 0100-4042 |
Autores: | Viegas-Junior, Claudio1 Rezende, Amanda de Silva, Dulce Helena Siqueira Castro-Gamboa, Ian Bolzani, Vanderlan da Silva Barreiro, Eliezer J2 Miranda, Ana Luisa Palhares de Alexandre-Moreira, Magna Suzana3 Young, Maria Claudia Marx4 |
Instituciones: | 1Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho", Instituto de Quimica, Araraquara, Sao Paulo. Brasil 2Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Farmacia, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil 3Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Centro de Ciencias Biologicas, Maceio, Alagoas. Brasil 4Instituto de Botanica, Secao de Bioquimica e Fisiologia de Plantas, Sao Paulo. Brasil |
Año: | 2006 |
Periodo: | Nov |
Volumen: | 29 |
Número: | 6 |
Paginación: | 1279-1286 |
País: | Brasil |
Idioma: | Portugués |
Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
Enfoque: | Analítico, descriptivo |
Resumen en inglés | Species of Cassia are widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world, and have been extensively investigated chemically and pharmacologically.They are known to be a rich source of phenolic derivatives, most of them with important biological and pharmacological properties. Some Asian, African and Indian tribes use these species as a laxative, purgative, antimicrobial, antipyretic, antiviral and anti-inflammatory agent. Among a number of other classes of secondary metabolites, such as anthracene derivatives, antraquinones, steroids and stilbenoids, biologically active piperidine alkaloids are an especially important bioactive class of compounds that showed to be restricted to a small group of Cassia species. In this paper we present an overview of the chemical, biological and ethnopharmacological data on Cassia piblished in the literature |
Disciplinas: | Química, Biología |
Palabras clave: | Fitoquímica, Angiospermas, Plantas medicinales, Etnofarmacología, Cassia, Fabaceae |
Keyword: | Chemistry, Biology, Phytochemistry, Angiosperms, Medicinal plants, Ethnopharmacology, Cassia, Fabaceae |
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