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| Antinarelli,Luciana M.R.; Pinto,Nícolas C.; Scio,Elita; Coimbra,Elaine S.. |
| Leishmaniasis is a complex of diseases caused by Leishmania protozoa which treatment is restricted to a limited number of drugs that exhibit high toxicity, collateral effects and are often costly. There are a variety of tropical plants distributed in Brazil, and for many poor people the therapy for several diseases is based mainly on the use of traditional herbal remedies. In this work, the cytotoxic activity of 17 plant methanol extracts was evaluated on several Leishmania species and murine macrophages. Among them, the extract of Casearia sylvestris, Piptocarpha macropoda, Trembleya parviflora, Samanea tubulosa and Plectranthus neochilus showed a promissing leishmanicidal activity, exhibiting IC50 values below of 20 µg/mL against at least one species of... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Brazil; Casearia sylvestris; Leishmanicidal activity; Medicinal plants; Natural products. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652015000200733 |
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| Fabri,Rodrigo L.; Grazul,Richard M.; Carvalho,Lidiane O. de; Coimbra,Elaine S.; Cardoso,Gabriele M.M.; Souza-Fagundes,Elaine M. de; Silva,Adilson D. da; Scio,Elita. |
| The bioactivity guided fractionation of the dichloromethane extract of Mitracarpus frigidus afforded the pyranonaphthoquinone psychorubrin. This compound, hitherto unknown in the genus Mitracarpus, had its biological activity evaluated against one panel of bacteria and two fungi, three tumor cell lines (HL60, Jurkat and MCF-7) and four Leishmania species. Its identity was confirmed unambiguously by ¹H, 13C, ¹H-COSY, IR and UV-Vis spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Psychorubrin displayed a very promising antitumor with IC50 of 4.5, 5.6 and 1.1 µM for HL60, Jurkat and MCF-7 cell lines, respectively. Antimicrobial activity, mainly against Cryptococcus neoformans (MIC of 87.3 µM) was observed. A pronounced antileishmanial potential was also verified with IC50... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Mitracarpus frigidus; Psychorubrin; Pyranonaphthoquinone; Rubiaceae. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652012000400022 |
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| Fabri,Rodrigo L.; Coimbra,Elaine S.; Almeida,Ana C.; Siqueira,Ezequias P.; Alves,Tânia M.A.; Zani,Carlos L.; Scio,Elita. |
| In our previous work (Fabri et al. 2009), we showed that different extracts of Mitracarpus frigidus had significant antibacterial, antifungal and leishmanicidal activities. In order to increase our knowledge about this species, this work assesses the chemical composition and the in vitro biological activity of its essential oil. Thus, the essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation of the aerial parts of M. frigidus was analyzed by GC/MS. Among several compounds detected, 11 were identified, being linalool and eugenol acetate the major components. The essential oil exhibited a moderate antibacterial effect against Staphyloccocus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacter cloacae (MIC 250 µg/mL). On the other hand, it showed a strong... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Mitracarpus frigidus; Essential oil; Antimicrobial; Antileishmanial; Cytotoxicity. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652012000400021 |
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