Ecotoxicity of plant extracts and essential oils: A review

CA Ferraz, MR Pastorinho, A Palmeira-de-Oliveira… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plant-based products such as essential oils and other extracts have been used for centuries
due to their beneficial properties. Currently, their use is widely disseminated through a …

Artemia species: An important tool to screen general toxicity samples

E Ntungwe N, EM Domínguez-Martín… - Current …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
Medicinal plants are a good source of novel therapeutic drugs, due to the phytochemicals
present. Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, is a tiny halophilic invertebrate …

[HTML][HTML] Phytotherapeutic applications of alkaloids in treating breast cancer

S Rampogu, T Balasubramaniyam, JH Lee - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is one of the major causes of mortality in women worldwide. The current
treatments available are radiation therapy (RT), surgery, endocrine (hormone) therapy (ET) …

A review of the ethnobotanical value, phytochemistry, pharmacology, toxicity and quality control of Tussilago farfara L.(coltsfoot)

S Chen, L Dong, H Quan, X Zhou, J Ma, W Xia… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance Tussilago farfara L.(commonly called coltsfoot), known as
a vital folk medicine, have long been used to treat various respiratory disorders and …

[HTML][HTML] Critical review of lipid-based nanoparticles as carriers of neuroprotective drugs and extracts

F Fernandes, M Dias-Teixeira, C Delerue-Matos… - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
The biggest obstacle to the treatment of diseases that affect the central nervous system
(CNS) is the passage of drugs across the blood-brain barrier (BBB), a physical barrier that …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis and anticancer evaluation of new 1, 3, 4-oxadiazole derivatives

CE Stecoza, GM Nitulescu, C Draghici, MT Caproiu… - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
In order to develop novel chemotherapeutic agents with potent anticancer activities, a series
of new 2, 5-diaryl/heteroaryl-1, 3, 4-oxadiazoles were designed and synthesized. The …

[HTML][HTML] New pyrrole derivatives as promising biological agents: design, synthesis, characterization, in silico, and cytotoxicity evaluation

BC Ivan, SF Barbuceanu, CM Hotnog… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The current study describes the synthesis, physicochemical characterization and cytotoxicity
evaluation of a new series of pyrrole derivatives in order to identify new bioactive molecules …

Nanoflow liquid chromatography mass spectrometry method for quantitative analysis and target ion screening of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in honey, tea, herbal tinctures …

M Jansons, D Fedorenko, R Pavlenko, Z Berzina… - … of Chromatography A, 2022 - Elsevier
A method for the determination of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in tea, honey, herbal tinctures, and
milk samples was developed by employing nano-LC-MS with high-resolution Orbitrap mass …

[HTML][HTML] A review on the ethnobotany, phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology of butterbur species (Petasites L.)

Ł Kulinowski, SV Luca, M Minceva… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Ethnopharmacological relevance Petasites (butterbur, Asteraceae) species have
been used since Ancient times in the traditional medicine of Asian and European countries …

Plant toxins: alkaloids and their toxicities

KZM Adibah, MA Azzreena - GSC Biological and …, 2019 - gsconlinepress.com
Since ancient civilization, plants have been utilized in many aspects of life, especially in
medicinal purposes due to the presence of distinctive secondary metabolites like alkaloids …