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Home / Archives for Amaral AC

Is there still room to explore cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase-producers in Brazilian biodiversity?

  • Authors: Gomes ACSM, Dos Santos SR, Ribeiro MC, Cravo P, Vieira JDG, De Souza KMC, Amaral AC
  • Publication Year: 2018
  • Journal: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
  • Link: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0001-37652018000401473&script=sci_abstract&tlng=en

In the present work, different Brazilian biomes aiming to identify and select cyclodextringlycosyltransferase-producer bacteria are explored. This enzyme is responsible for converting starch to cyclodextrin, which are interesting molecules to carry other substances of economic interest applied by textile, pharmaceutical, food, and other industries. Based on the enzymatic index, 12 bacteria were selected and evaluated, […]
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Evaluation of Antiplasmodial activity of extracts and constituents from Ampelozizyphus amazonicus

  • Authors: Amaral AC, do Carmo DF, Echevarria A, Lopes D, Machado M, Rosário VE, Silva JR
  • Publication Year: 2015
  • Journal: Pharmacognosy Magazine
  • Link: http://www.phcog.com/article.asp?issn=0973-1296;year=2015;volume=11;issue=44;spage=244;epage=250;aulast=do

Ampelozizyphus amazonicus Ducke, a plant that is widely used by the population of the Amazonian region to prevent and treat malaria, was investigated in this work, which describes, for the first time, the antiplasmodial activity of its extracts and associates this activity with its isolated constituents. Different extracts with solvents of increasing polarity (hexane, chloroform, […]
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A review of antimalarial plants used in traditional medicine in communities in Portuguese-speaking countries: Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola.

  • Authors: Amaral AC, Canto-Cavalheiro MM, de Moura DF, Do Rosário VE, Figueiredo P, Lopes D, Machado M, Neto Z, Ramos A de S, Silva JR
  • Journal: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=A+review+of+antimalarial+plants+used+in+traditional+medicine+in+communities+in+Portuguese-Speaking+countries%3A+Brazil%2C+Mozambique%2C+Cape+Verde%2C+Guinea-Bissau%2C+Sao+Tome+and+Principe+and+Angola

The isolation of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants, based on traditional use or ethnomedical data, is a highly promising potential approach for identifying new and effective antimalarial drug candidates.
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