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Medicinal plants of the brazilian cerrado: knowing to preserve
Santos, Lucinéia dos; Viel, Amanda Martins; Tarosso, Leandro Fagundes; Momesso, Luciano da Silva; Palmieri, Dario Abel; Spera, Kamille DaleckThe Cerrado is the second largest biome in Brazil and presents an immeasurable and still underexplored ecological diversity. Despite the exuberance of its endemic species, it is one of the 25 global hotspots, due to a high natural biodiversity wealth along with an expressive environment destruction. In this study, we surveyed the knowledge on medicinal use of Cerrado plants held by indi...
Toxicological, genotoxic and antioxidant potential of Pyrostegia venusta
Viel, Amanda Martins; Silva, Luciana Pereira; Martins, Gustavo Rafagnin; Urtremari, Betsaida; Sekiya, Alline; Dokkedal, Anne LígiaPyrostegia venusta is usually found in the secondary growth of the Atlantic forests, and in the Brazilian Savanna. Flowers and leaves of this plant are used in folk remedies for treating a wide variety of healthy conditions, this way is important evaluate its safety and antioxidant potential for this applications. For this, was made a ethanolic extract from its flowers and analyzed with toxicological, genotoxic...