2002
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-8741(01)00420-2
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Assessment of the antihypertensive and vasodilator effects of ethanolic extracts of some Colombian medicinal plants

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“…americana is used in folk medicine mainly due to its properties to treat ulcers and inflammations. In fact, some researchers have already reported the therapeutic activities of this plant, since it presents anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antihypertensive, and vasodilator effects (Alexandre-Moreira et al, 1999;Guerrero et al, 2002). Nevertheless, the results of our study demonstrated that the ethanolic extract of this plant exhibited genotoxic activity at almost all tested concentrations.…”
Section: Resultscontrasting
confidence: 69%
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“…americana is used in folk medicine mainly due to its properties to treat ulcers and inflammations. In fact, some researchers have already reported the therapeutic activities of this plant, since it presents anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antihypertensive, and vasodilator effects (Alexandre-Moreira et al, 1999;Guerrero et al, 2002). Nevertheless, the results of our study demonstrated that the ethanolic extract of this plant exhibited genotoxic activity at almost all tested concentrations.…”
Section: Resultscontrasting
confidence: 69%
“…The phytochemical analysis of this species revealed the presence of flavonoids, terpenes, phenolic compounds, saponins, and steroids (El-Azizi et al, 1980). Previous studies using this plant hydroalcoholic bark extract reported its anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antihypertensive, and vasodilator effects (Alexandre-Moreira et al, 1999;Guerrero et al, 2002). Another research showed that this bark extract provoked alterations both in the distribution of technetium-99m in the body and in this radiopharmaceutical substance binding by blood cells and other molecules, which inhibits the diagnostic precision of diseases using this compound (Soares et al, 2002).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 88%
“…As propriedades fitoterapêuticas devem-se à presença de sesquiterpenos característicos do gênero Lippia (Guerrero, 2002): citral (30-35%), limoneno (10-18%), citroneol, alfa e beta pineno, etil-eugenol, linalol, entre outros (Lorenzi & Matos, 2002) no óleo essencial. Na Europa, dentre as espécies de Verbenaceae, a Lippia citriodora é muito explorada comercialmente para produção de óleo essencial, conhecido como óleo de verbena, amplamente utilizado em perfumaria (Craveiro et al, 1981).…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…Várias espécies do táxon são empregadas popularmente como medicinais para o tratamento de problemas digestivos e alguns estudos demonstraram atividades farmacológicas, a exemplo das atividades hipoglicêmica (Ramos et al, 1992) e antiplasmódica (Kohler et al, 2002) de C. zacatechichi Schltdl., antifúngica de C. clematidea Baker (Flach et al, 2002) e C. unifl ora , anti-hipertensiva de C. glomerata Klatt (Guerrero et al, 2002), tripanosomicida de C. unifl ora (Nascimento et al, 2002; e amebicida de C. pinnatifi da (Machado Filho, 1930;Vaz, 1949).…”
Section: Introductionunclassified