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Provedor de dados: | 98
País: | Cuba
Título: | Antimicrobial activity of natural products from Myracrodruon urundeuva Allemão (Aroeira-do-sertão)
Autores: | Lopes Gomes,Vangerlan Tiago; Pereira Chaves,Thiago; Batista Alencar,Laianne Carla; Coelho Dantas,Ivan; Dantas de Medeiros,Ana Cláudia; de Castro Felismino,Delcio.
Data: | 2013-12-01
Ano: | 2013
Palavras-chave: | Medicinal plants; Myracrodruon urundeuva; Semiarid; Ethnopharmacology; Secondary metabolites; Antimicrobial activity.
Resumo: | Introduction: Myracrodruon urundeuva Allemão (Anacardiaceae) is a plant from the Brazilian semiarid region with medicinal properties against various diseases. Objective: to screen the phytochemistry and determine the antimicrobial activity of the hydroalcoholic extract from the bark of this plant. Methods: the extract was obtained by maceration and subjected to qualitative phytochemical tests and in vitro antimicrobial activity assays against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria and fungi. Results: among the phytochemical compounds stood out tannins, flavonoids and alkaloids. The extract was effective against Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterococcus faecalis. Conclusions: Myracrodruon urundeuva presents compounds of high pharmacological interest such as tannins, flavonoids and alkaloids, being a plant with potential antibacterial activity.
Tipo: | Journal article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1028-47962013000400004
Editor: | ECIMED
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Cubana de Plantas Medicinales  v.18 n.4 2013