The incidence of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected people has drastically increased over the last few decades, and has motivated the search for new drugs and drug production methods. Calophyllum brasiliense (Cambes) is a rain forest tree that produces calanolides, secondary metabolites that are active against human immunodeficiency virus...
A partir de explantes de embriones cigóticos y megagametofitos fueron inducidos cultivos organogénicos de Dioon merolae De Luca Sabato & Vázquez Torres, del estado de Chiapas (México) cícada en peligro de extinción. El medio de inducción Litz consistió en los macronutrientes del medio B5, los micronutrientes del medio MS (1962)...
The Cecropia obtusifolia tree, popularly known as guarumbo in Mexico, is used in folk medicine for treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2). C. obtusifolia’s antidiabtic effect was assessed in animal models, as well as in humans and attributed to chlorogenic acid (CA) and isoorientine (ISO). The aim of this...