Otro
Aspectos químicos, biológicos e etnofarmacológicos do gênero Cassia
Registro en:
Quimica Nova, v. 29, n. 6, p. 1279-1286, 2006.
0100-4042
1678-7064
10.1590/S0100-40422006000600025
S0100-40422006000600025
WOS:000242341600025
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Autor
Viegas Jr., Cláudio
De Rezende, Amanda
Silva, Dulce Helena Siqueira
Bolzani, Ian Castro-Gambôa E Vanderlan Da Silva
Barreiro, Eliezer J.
De Miranda, Ana Luisa Palhares
Alexandre-Moreira, Magna Suzana
Young, Maria Cláudia Marx
Resumen
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.