Nove limonóides foram isolados de Carapa guianensis e Cedrela fissilis. Entre eles, a 1,2-diidro-3β-hidroxi-7-desacetoxi-7-oxogedunina é uma substância inédita. Além disso, alguns deslocamentos químicos da xilocensina k foram corrigidos e os dados de RMN 1 H da 7-desacetilgedunina são descritos pela primeira vez na literatura. Seis dos limonóides isolados foram submetidos a ensaios com formigas Atta sexdens rubropilosa e apresentaram atividade inseticida moderada. Nine limonoids were isolated from Carapa guianensis and Cedrela fissilis. Among them, 1,2-dihydro-3β-hydroxy-7-deacetoxy-7-oxogedunin is a new compound. Moreover, the assignments of some chemical shifts of xyloccensin k have been corrected and 1 H NMR data of 7-deacetylgedunin have been assigned for the first time. These isolated limonoids were assayed on Atta sexdens rubropilosa workers showing moderate insecticidal activities.

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Chagas' disease is an illness that affects millions of people in Central and South America. The search for both a prophylactic drug to be added to human blood as well as a safe and reliable therapeutic drug are greatly needed to control such disease. Herein, we report the trypanocidal activity of 15 crude extracts and 14 compounds (limonoids and triterpenes) as well as the isolation of 25 known compounds (6 limonoids, 12 triterpenes, 1 sesquiterpene, 5 steroids, and 1 flavonoid) from Cedrela fissilis. The present study shows that this plant is a promising source of active compounds for the control of Chagas' disease. The inhibitory activity found for odoratol indicates that it is potentially useful as an alternative for the chemoprophylactic gentian violet.

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cells play a pivotal role in host responses against primary Denv infection in mice. after infection, μMt −/− mice showed increased viral loads followed by severe disease manifestation characterized by intense thrombocytopenia, hemoconcentration, cytokine production and massive liver damage that culminated in death. In addition, we show that poly and monoclonal anti-Denv-specific antibodies can sufficiently increase viral replication through a suppression of early innate antiviral responses and enhance disease manifestation, so that a mostly non-lethal illness becomes a fatal disease resembling human DHF/Dss. Finally, treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin containing anti-Denv antibodies confirmed the potential enhancing capacity of Abstract Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease caused by one of four serotypes of Dengue virus (Denv-1-4). epidemiologic and observational studies demonstrate that the majority of severe dengue cases, dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome (DHF/Dss), occurs predominantly in either individuals with cross-reactive immunity following a secondary heterologous infection or in infants with primary Denv infections born from dengue-immune mothers, suggesting that B-cell-mediated and antibody responses impact on disease evolution. We demonstrate here that B Electronic supplementary material the online version of this article