Toxic medicinal plants can be defined as any plant that in one or more of its organs contains
toxin that can induce adverse side effects in animal/humans upon consumption or …

Helicobacter pylori is often related to severe clinical manifestations of infections and may
increase an individual's chance of developing stomach cancer. We are reporting the in vitro …

Abstract The EFSA Panel on Food Additive and Flavourings (FAF Panel) provides a
scientific opinion on the safety of a new process to produce steviol glycosides by …

Two new ent-kaurene diterpene glucosides, β-d-glucopyranosyl-15α-(3-hydroxyl-3-
methylbutanoyloxy)-ent-16-kauren-19-oate (1) and β-d-glucopyranosyl-15α-hydroxy-ent-16 …

The diterpene kaurenoic acid (KA) has vasorelaxant, antimicrobial, anti-tumoural and anti-
leishmanial effects. Semi-synthetic derivatives were obtained to achieve more satisfactory …

The pimarane-type diterpene, pimaradienoic acid (PA), is known for its diverse biological
properties such as antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and trypanocidal. A preliminary study …

A utilização de plantas medicinais sempre foi bem difundida, porém hoje se faz necessária
uma abordagem científica para comprovar sua eficácia. Este estudo foi realizado para …

Like in the first edition of this book (2013), this revised, reorganized, and updated chapter
aims to present the most recent trends and perspectives related to the extraction of natural …

Copaiba oils are oleoresins naturally produced and exuded from the tree trunk of several
species of the Copaifera genus, a Leguminosae. Like all natural oleoresins, it has a volatile …

Venereal diseases (VDs) are infections that are mainly transmitted through sexual
intercourse and amongst these are gonorrhoea, syphilis, chlamydia and trichomoniasis …