Gonçalo I. Caldeira's research while affiliated with University of Lisbon and other places

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Lannea L. genus belongs to the Anacardiaceae botanical family and has long been used in traditional medicinal systems of many countries to manage several health conditions, but no studies have been conducted regarding its usefulness as a source of herbal medicine for human use. A literature review was conducted on scientific papers indexed on B-On,...
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Anacardium occidentale L. stem bark Traditional Herbal Preparations (AoBTHPs) are widely used in traditional medicine to treat inflammatory conditions, such as diabetes. The present study aims to evaluate the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and genotoxic potential of red and white Portuguese AoBTHPs. Using a carrageenan-induced rat paw edema model,...
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Vitex L. is the largest genus of the Lamiaceae family, and most of its species are used in the traditional medicinal systems of different countries. A systematic review was conducted, according to the PRISMA methodology, to determine the potential of Vitex plants as sources of antimicrobial agents, resulting in 2610 scientific publications from whi...
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Hypericum foliosum Aiton is an endemic Azorean Hypericum species. Even though the aerial parts of Hypericum foliosum are not described in any official pharmacopoeia, they are utilized in local traditional medicine due to their diuretic, hepatoprotective, and antihypertensive properties. This plant has previously been the subject of phytochemical ch...
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Hypericum L. genus plants are distributed worldwide, with numerous species identified throughout all continents, except Antarctica. These plant species are currently used in various systems of traditional medicine to treat mild depression, wounds and burns, diarrhea, pain, fevers, and their secondary metabolites previously shown, and the in vitro a...
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Introduction Increasing rates of gonorrhoea infection have been reported, as well as growing antimicrobial resistance, indicating a potential public health crisis. Evidence suggests that some medicinal plants exert activity against resistant strains of distinct species of bacteria without response to conventional drug therapy. This paper aimed to p...

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... Toksin dari tanin dapat menyebabkan peningkatan ruang antar sel dan terlepasnya sel dari membran basal (Neto et al., 2018). Malú et al. (2024) menyatakan bahwa L. coromandelica juga mengandung alkaloid. Alkaloid memiliki efek neurotoxin dan cardiotoxin yang bekerja pada otot, saraf dan myocardium. ...
... Hypericum plants are mostly herbs or shrubs, less often trees, and the flowers are often yellow or golden and occasionally white. Some species of this genus are cultivated around the world due to ornamental value, while some species have high medicinal value (Galeotti 2017;Bertoli et al. 2018;Marrelli et al. 2020;Revuru et al. 2020;Caldeira et al. 2022;Fang et al. 2023;Luo et al. 2023;Zheng et al. 2023). ...
... Furthermore, many parts of Africa and Asia have historically employed plants from the genus Albizia to cure infectious diseases. For example, boiled roots and bark of Albizia gummifera are orally taken in some communities in Ethiopia to treat gonorrheal infections [47]. In Uganda, the leaves, stems, bark, roots, seeds, and flowers of Albizia coriaria are used to treat cough [48]. ...