Screening of plants used in south Brazilian folk medicine.
Thirty-seven species of medicinal plants used in folk phytotherapy were chemically screened for alkaloids, coumarins, flavonoids, anthraquinones, saponins, sterols and/or triterpenes and tannins. Seven of these were also screened for the presence of mutagenic activity using the Ames test (Salmonella/microsome).
Alice
C B
CB
Curso Pos Graduaçao, Facultade de Farmacia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Vargas
V M
VM
Silva
G A
GA
de Siqueira
N C
NC
Schapoval
E E
EE
Gleye
J
J
Henriques
J A
JA
Henriques
A T
AT
D001938:Brazil; D006801:Humans; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D009152:Mutagenicity Tests; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000032:analysis* / Q000633:toxicity; D010946:Plants, Medicinal
D010936:Plant Extracts