January 2016

Antioxidants from three Swietenia Species (Meliaceae)

The genus Swietenia (Meliaceae) has a wide variety of secondary metabolites with reported antioxidant activity, such as flavonoids and limonoids. In the present study, the antioxidant capacity, along with the phenol and flavonoid contents of the leaf extracts of three species of this genus: Swietenia mahagoni, Swietenia macrophylla, and Swietenia humilis were evaluated. The antioxidant activity was determined by the...

Author(s): Lina M. Preciado, Tatiana Lobo-Echeverri, Jaime A. Pereañez, Karol Zapata and Benjamín A. Rojano

January 2016

Toxicogenetic profile of rats treated with aqueous extract from Morinda citrifolia fruits

Morinda citrifolia ((Family: Rubiaceae)) is extensively used in traditional medicine due to its anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antitumoral, and anti-hypertensive activities. However, there is no substantial data about hepatotoxic and toxicogenetic effects. This study evaluated biochemical changes and hepatotoxic, genotoxic, and mutagenic effects of aqueous extract of the fruit of M. citrifolia (AEMC) in liver, bone...

Author(s): Germano Pinho de Moraes, Marcus Vinícius Oliveira Barros de Alencar, Md. Torequl Islam, Lidiane da Silva Araújo, Débora Cássia Vieira Gomes, Rodrigo Mendes de Carvalho, Dione Corrêa, Márcia Fernanda Correia Jardim Paz, Paulo Michel Pinheiro Ferreira,, Ana Amélia de Carvalho Melo-Cavalcante,, Alexandre Ferraz, Ivana Grivicich and Jaqueline Nascimento Picada