Background and objectives:Acerola (Malpighia emarginataDC.) is a tropical fruit known for its nutritionaland functional properties due to its great contents vitamin C, carotenoids and anthocyanins. The anti-oxidant potential from plants extracts associated to hepatoprotective activity has been widely studied.However, the effect of antioxidants in natural fruit juice has not been fully searched. The aim of this ...
Ethnopharmacological relevance: Caryocar coriaceumWittm. (Caryocaraceae), popularly known as pequi,is important source of food and used in the folk medicine as wound healing, anti-inflammatory and forthe treatment of diseases of the respiratory tract, rheumatic and muscular pains and gastric ulcer.Aim of the study:To evaluate the effects of fixed oil ofCaryocar coriaceum(FOCC) on the topical inflam-mation and c...
This research investigated the profile of anti-Leishmania antibodies in different clinical forms of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL). Naturally infected dogs were divided into two groups: subclinical dogs (SD, n = 10) and clinical dogs (CD, n = 68). Non-infected dogs (ND, n = 7) comprised the negative control group. The humoral response was evaluated by the profile of total IgG, IgG1, IgG2, IgM, IgA and IgE,...