Boswellia copallifera resin commonly known as Copal Blanco and Copal de Penca harvested in Mexico. Background: The plant species Bursera copallifera (DC) bullock is used in traditional medicine to treat inflammation. The leaves of this plant. PDF | Plants from the Bursera genus are widely distributed in the tropical dry forests of Mexico. In traditional medicine, extracts from different.
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Bursera copallifera
Natural products have played a fundamental role in biomedical research and drug development in recent decades. ISI Web of Knowledge. Within the search of natural products with activity on insects, organic extracts hexane, ethyl acetate and methanol of Bursera copallifera and B.
No photographs or artwork may be used without expressed permission. Ear punch biopsies 8 mm in diameter were obtained and immediately weighed. Gautam R, Jachak S. This extract also exhibited antitumor activity in mice inoculated with LY lymphoma cells and in zebra fish. The effectiveness of these plant extracts used in folk medicine to suppress inflammatory responses may be due to their inhibitory activity on COX enzymes.
A dye may be made from the bark and the resin is said to make a fine varnish for traditional word workings. CA Cancer J Clin. Table 2 summarizes the results that were obtained from treatment with the organic extracts of the stems, leaves, and stem bark at doses of 1, 0. Songklanakarin J Sci Technol.
Table 3 In vitro cytotoxic assay of plant extracts from Bursera copallifera against five tumor cell lines using the sulforhodamine B assay.
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The following extracts were obtained from various parts of the plant: Western Mexico Growth Habits: Dichloromethanolic extract from the leaves was the organic extract with the highest yield and activity Journal List Pharmacogn Mag v. All of the extracts that were obtained from the different parts of B. The main harvesting of the resin has centered around the La Mixteca region since pre-Hispanic times.
Biodiversidad Mexicana,available from http: Useful Tropical Plants,available from http: Natural products are promising substances for the identification and development of bioactive compounds to develop drugs for the treatment of inflammatory diseases. It is thought that by censing the jawbones of animals killed during the hunt will allow their souls to return to their rightful place in the spirit world.
All of the animals in the study were sacrificed by cervical dislocation. The weight increase of the ear punches was directly proportional to the degree of inflammation. Selection methodology with scoring system: The results obtained in this study motivate future studies on extracts of B.
Inflammatory cascades can lead to the development of diseases such as chronic asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, and psoriasis. Frequently diagnosed cancers include lung, colorectal, breast, and prostate cancers; and a total of 16,60, new cancer cases and 5,80, cancer deaths were reported in in the USA alone.
Sarg Burseraceae J Ethnopharmacol. Copal Santo Bursera copallifera.
The results indicate that B. We evaluated the ability of extracts to inhibit mouse ear inflammation in response to topical application of O tetradecanoylphorbolacetate. Semi-hardy in Phoenix Sun Exposure: Further studies are considerate to determine the mechanism of copallifefa cytotoxic or antiproliferative effect of these extracts and other inflammatory parameters.
Cytotoxic podophyllotoxin type-lignans from the steam bark of Bursera fagaroides var. HAS exhibited the highest inhibition