Ethnopharmacological, biological and chemical aspects of the Cassia genus

Química Nova

Castro-Gambôa, Ian¹  Miranda, Ana Luisa Palhares de¹  Silva, Dulce Helena Siqueira¹  Rezende, Amanda de¹  Young, Maria Cláudia Marx¹  Estadual Paulista 'Júlio de Mesquita Filho', Araraquara, Brasil¹  Instituto de Botânica, São Paulo, Brasil¹  Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil¹  Alexandre-Moreira, Magna Suzana¹  Bolzani, Vanderlan da Silva¹  Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brasil¹  Viegas Junior, Cláudio¹  Barreiro, Eliezer J.¹ 

关键词: Cassia;    Fabaceae;    Leguminosae.;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-40422006000600025

学科分类：化学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Quimica

【 摘 要 】

Species of Cassia are widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world, and have been extensively investigated chemically and pharmacologically.They are known to be a rich source of phenolic derivatives, most of them with important biological and pharmacological properties. Some Asian, African and Indian tribes use these species as a laxative, purgative, antimicrobial, antipyretic, antiviral and anti-inflammatory agent. Among a number of other classes of secondary metabolites, such as anthracene derivatives, antraquinones, steroids and stilbenoids, biologically active piperidine alkaloids are an especially important bioactive class of compounds that showed to be restricted to a small group of Cassia species. In this paper we present an overview of the chemical, biological and ethnopharmacological data on Cassia piblished in the literature.

【 授权许可】

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