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| Machado,Michel M.; Oliveira,Luis F.S. de; Zuravski,Luisa; Souza,Raul O. de; Fischer,Paula; Duarte,Jonathaline A.; Rocha,Manoelly O.; Güez,Camila M.; Boligon,Aline A.; Athayde,Margareth L.. |
| ABSTRACT Euphorbia tirucalli (L.), commonly known as aveloz, has been indiscriminately used in popular medicine to treat various illnesses. However, some components can have devastating consequences. Injury to a cell's genetic material can cause mutations, cancer, and cell death. Our main goal in this work was to evaluate the genotoxic and cytotoxic effects of E. tirucalli extract on human leukocytes. For this purpose, we performed a phytochemical analysis to evaluate the plant's components. In the second step, we treated cultured human leukocytes with different concentrations of the dry extract of the plant and then evaluated the oxidative and genotoxic profiles of these leukocytes. We found that at 1% and 10% concentrations, the aveloz extract acted as a... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Aveloz; Euphorbia tirucalli; Leukocytes; Genotoxic; Cytotoxic. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652016000100017 |
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| Oliveira,Luís Flávio Souza de; Fuentefria,Alexandre Meneghello; Klein,Fernanda da Silva; Machado,Michel Mansur. |
| In the last times, focus on plant research has increased all over the world. Euphorbia tirucalli L., a plant known popularly as Aveloz, and originally used in Africa, has been drawing attention for its use in the United States and Latin America, both for use as an ornamental plant and as a medicinal plant. E. tirucalli L. is a member of the family Euphorbiaceae and contains many diterpenoids and triterpenoids, in particular phorbol esters, apparently the main constituent of this plant, which are assumed to be responsible for their activities in vivo and in vitro. The in vitro antifungal activities of Euphorbia tirucalli (L.) against opportunistic yeasts were studied using microbroth dilution assay. The results showed that aqueous extract and latex... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Euphorbia tirucalli L.; Aveloz; Antifungal; Cryptococcus neoformans. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822014000400027 |
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