ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Schinus molle L. has been used in folk medicine as antibacterial, antiviral, topical antiseptic, antifungal, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumoural as well as antispasmodic and analgesic; however, there are few studies of pharmacological and toxicological properties of Schinus molle essential oils. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant and a...

Dental pathologies can be caused by plaque-forming bacteria and yeast, which reside in the oral cavity. The bacteria growing in dental plaque, a naturally occurring biofilm, display increased resistance to antimicrobial agents. The objective was the evaluation of a preclinical assay of medicinal plants of the semiarid region from the northeast against oral pathogenic microorganism, aiming at bi...

Considering the increase in consumption of Cannabis sativa and the use of the compound β-carotene (BC) as supplement, we investigated potential changes in the chemical and biological proprieties of BC after exposure to C. sativa smoke (CSS). Our results showed that the BC exposed to CSS underwent 98.8% degradation and suffered loss of its antiradical activity. The major degradation products ide...

The activity of IF-MP, a polypeptide chain initiation factor that forms a ternary complex with eukaryotic initiator Met-tRNA and GTP and promotes binding of the initiator to 40S ribosomes, is very low in undeveloped Artemia salina embryos but increases over 20-fold following resumption of development upon hydration of the cysts. The factor is present in both the ribosomal salt wash and high-sp...

Campomanesia sessiliflora O. Berg is a medicinal plant that object of very few studies in the literature. In this context, antioxidant activity, sun protection factor (SPF) and toxicity Artemia salina Leachs were analysed, as well contents phenolic compounds, flavonoids tannins aqueous extracts prepared by infusion maceration C. leaves. Maceration showed higher levels compounds regarding two sa...

Extracts were prepared from 13 native plants used for the treatment of protozoal infections. Activity against bacteria and fungi was demonstrated by dilution procedures; Trypanosoma cruzi was evaluated in vitro against epimastigote and trypomastigotes and in vivo against trypomastigotes. In active extracts, toxicity was evaluated by Artemia salina nauplii, oral acute toxicity (1-5 g/kg) and ora...

Embryos of the brine shrimp, Artemia salina, were used in a study of polypeptide chain initiation in an in vitro system from a eukaryote. A protein, isolated from the high-speed supernatant, has been highly purified and shown to have properties that suggest it is the eukaryotic equivalent of the Escherichia coli initiation factor F(2): It promotes the AUG-dependent binding of fMet-tRNA (E. coli...