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ANTIPLATELET ACTIVITY OF CITRUS PLANT EXTRACTS

  • Dr. C. Milagros T Garcia Mesa
  • 26/06/2019 14:00
  • Restaurante "El Tesico"

The antithrombotic efficacy and safety of currently available antiplatelet drugs is limited for different reasons. Therefore, other effective, safe and low-cost therapeutic options are needed The fact that acetyl salicylic acid (ASA), a reference antithrombotic drug, was discovered from Salix alba L. (willow) allows suggesting that new therapeutic options could be developed from other plant species. Nevertheless, “antiplatelet” is not a popular term, being difficult to find clues from Ethnomedic...

CELL-FREE SYSTEMS AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO PRODUCE BIOPHARMACEUTICALS

  • MsC. Javier E. Vázquez
  • 26/06/2019 14:00
  • Restaurante "El Tesico"

In recent years, cell-free systems (CFS) has emerged as a powerful technology to satisfy the growing demand for simple and efficient protein production as industrial processes, especially in case of biopharmaceuticals products. Very significant costs reduction, reaction scale (reached the 100 liter recently) and well-controlled reactions conditions are among the major advantages for this production platform compared to in vivo systems. In spite of those promising aspects, CFS has several hurdles...

ANTIOXIDANT AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY OF EXTRACTS OF THE PLANT ADELIA RICINELLA L.

  • MsC. Clara Azalea Berenguer Rivas
  • 26/06/2019 14:00
  • Restaurante "El Tesico"

Adelia ricinella L. is a Caribbean plant used as antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, of which there is few phytochemical and pharmacological information to support its traditional uses. In this research the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of three extracts (95% ethanol, 50% ethanol and water) obtained from aerial parts were evaluated using Soxhlet extraction. The main secondary metabolites were determined from qualitative and quantitative point of view. Antioxidant activit...

AN ETHNOBOTANICAL SURVEY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS USED BY INHABITANTS OF HOLGUÍN, EASTERN REGION, CUBA

  • MsC. Rosalia González Fernández
  • 26/06/2019 14:41
  • Restaurante "El Tesico"

For a long time, medicinal plants have played a very important role to treat various disorders and ailments in people’s health. Nowadays, the use of herbal remedies as a way of treatment is still very important for human beings. Ethnobotanical studies are a valuable tool to achieve the documentation of this ethnomedicinal knowledge. Cuba has a high diversity and endemism of Cuban flora, as well as the wide knowledge of medicinal plants in his inhabitants, that's why the present study is aimed to...

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