Aspectos químicos, biológicos e etnofarmacológicos do gênero Cassia

Química Nova

Cláudio Viegas Junior²  Amanda De Rezende²  Dulce Helena Siqueira Silva²  Ian Castro-gambôa²  Vanderlan Da Silva Bolzani²  Eliezer J. Barreiro¹  Ana Luisa Palhares De Miranda¹  Magna Suzana Alexandre-moreira¹  Maria Cláudia Marx Young¹ 

[1] ,Estadual Paulista 'Júlio de Mesquita Filho' Instituto de Química Araraquara SP ,Brasil

关键词: Cassia;    Fabaceae;    Leguminosae;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-40422006000600025

来源: SciELO

【 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.

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