A phytochemical investigation of the plant Vinca ro@eaLinn. has demonstrated that a number of alkaloidal substances can be obtained with antitumon activity. Over 30 alkaloids have been obtained, of which four—vinbiastine, vinleunosine, vincnistine, and vinrosidine—are known definitely to be active. Chemically these compounds are closely related to one another and to two monomeric alkaloids,...

O presente texto traz uma reflexão acerca da formação docente para o ensino primário em Moçambique. Por meio de abordagem qualitativa, discute sobre alguns aspectos históricos, sociais, culturais e políticos desse povo apresenta Sistema Nacional Educação (SNE) a situação geral do Moçambique, como componentes que alicerçam profissional primário. Na sequência, visão panorâmica subsistema professo...

Taxanes and Vinca alkaloids are among the most active classes of drugs in the treatment of cancer. Yet, fewer than 50% of previously untreated patients respond, and clinicians have few ways of predicting who will benefit from treatment and who will not. Mutations in p53 occur in more than half of human malignancies and may alter the sensitivity to a variety of anticancer therapies. We have show...

The Vinca alkaloids are a group of widely used anticancer drugs, originally extracted from the Madagascar periwinkle, that disrupt microtubule dynamics in mammalian cells by interfering with proper assembly of α,β-tubulin heterodimers. They favor curved tubulin assemblies that destabilize microtubules and induce formation of spiral aggregates. Their binding energy profiles have been characteriz...

Lesser Periwinkle (Vinca minor L.), a member of Apocynaceae, is not only an ornamental plant with lilac-blue flowers, but also a medical plant producing an important alkaloid, vincamine, found in the leaves which shows a pronounced cerebrovasodilatory and neuroprotective activity. This plant is native to northern Spain, western France, central and southern Europe, and Caucasus. It has been rece...