التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Constituents and Pharmacological Activities of Myrcia (Myrtaceae): A Review of an Aromatic and Medicinal Group of Plants. |
| المؤلفون: |
Cascaes, Márcia Moraes1 cascaesmm@gmail.com, Pinheiro Guilhon, Giselle Maria Skelding1 giselle@ufpa.br, de Aguiar Andrade, Eloisa Helena1 eloisandrade@ufpa.br, Bichara Zoghbi, Maria das Graças2 gracazoghbi@gmail.com, da Silva Santos, Lourivaldo1 lss@ufpa.br |
| المصدر: |
International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2015, Vol. 16 Issue 10, p23881-23904. 24p. 6 Diagrams, 4 Charts, 1 Graph. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*MYRTACEAE, *BIOPHARMACEUTICS, *MEDICINAL plants, *CHEMICAL composition of plants, *VOLATILE organic compounds, *ANTI-infective agents, *THERAPEUTICS, THERAPEUTIC use of aromatic plants |
| مستخلص: |
Myrcia is one of the largest genera of the economically important family Myrtaceae. Some of the species are used in folk medicine, such as a group known as "pedra-hume-caá" or "pedra-ume-caá" or "insulina vegetal" (insulin plant) that it is used for the treatment of diabetes. The species are an important source of essential oils, and most of the chemical studies on Myrcia describe the chemical composition of the essential oils, in which mono- and sesquiterpenes are predominant. The non-volatile compounds isolated from Myrcia are usually flavonoids, tannins, acetophenone derivatives and triterpenes. Anti-inflammatory, antinociceptive, antioxidant, antimicrobial activities have been described to Myrcia essential oils, while hypoglycemic, anti-hemorrhagic and antioxidant activities were attributed to the extracts. Flavonoid glucosides and acetophenone derivatives showed aldose reductase and α-glucosidase inhibition, and could explain the traditional use of Myrcia species to treat diabetes. Antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory are some of the activities observed for other isolated compounds from Myrcia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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