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| Santos,Fabio V.; Mesquita,Suzana F.P.; Faria,Maria José S.S.; Poersh,Aline; Maciel,Maria Aparecida M.; Pinto,Angelo C.; Morimoto,Helena K.; Cólus,Ilce Mara S.. |
| The plant Croton cajucara Benth. (Euphorbiaceae) is a medicinal plant from the Brazilian Amazon where it is commonly known as sacaca. The principal compound isolated from C. cajucara stem-bark extracts is the clerodane-type diterpene trans-dehydrocrotonin (DCTN) which presents several biological activities, including antiulcerogenic, anti-inflammatory, hypoglycemic, antimutagenic and antitumoral activity. However, few studies have been carried out to evaluate the therapeutic potential of raw C. cajucara extracts. We studied mutagenicity and antimutagenicity effects of C. cajucara methanol extract using the micronucleus assay in bone marrow cells and the dominant lethal assay in mice submitted to subchronic treatments. The blood testosterone levels of the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Antimutagenicity; Mutagenicity; Dominant lethal; Micronucleus; Croton cajucara; Medicinal plant. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572006000100029 |
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