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Antimicrobial Activity and Chemical Composition of Essential Oils from Verbenaceae Species Growing in South America

The Verbenaceae family includes 2600 species grouped into 100 genera with a pantropical distribution. Many of them are important elements of the floras of warm-temperature and tropical regions of America. This family is known in folk medicine, and its species are used as digestive, carminative, anti...

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Autores principales: Pérez Zamora, Cristina M., Torres, Carola A., Nuñez, María B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6017629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29494478
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules23030544
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author Pérez Zamora, Cristina M.
Torres, Carola A.
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description The Verbenaceae family includes 2600 species grouped into 100 genera with a pantropical distribution. Many of them are important elements of the floras of warm-temperature and tropical regions of America. This family is known in folk medicine, and its species are used as digestive, carminative, antipyretic, antitussive, antiseptic, and healing agents. This review aims to collect information about the essential oils from the most reported species of the Verbenaceae family growing in South America, focusing on their chemical composition, antimicrobial activity, and synergism with commercial antimicrobials. The information gathered comprises the last twenty years of research within the South American region and is summarized taking into consideration the most representative species in terms of their essential oils. These species belong to Aloysia, Lantana, Lippia, Phyla, and Stachytarpheta genera, and the main essential oils they contain are monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes, such as β-caryophyllene, thymol, citral, 1,8-cineole, carvone, and limonene. These compounds have been found to possess antimicrobial activities. The synergism of these essential oils with antibiotics is being studied by several research groups. It constitutes a resource of interest for the potential use of combinations of essential oils and antibiotics in infection treatments.
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spelling pubmed-60176292018-11-13 Antimicrobial Activity and Chemical Composition of Essential Oils from Verbenaceae Species Growing in South America Pérez Zamora, Cristina M. Torres, Carola A. Nuñez, María B. Molecules Review The Verbenaceae family includes 2600 species grouped into 100 genera with a pantropical distribution. Many of them are important elements of the floras of warm-temperature and tropical regions of America. This family is known in folk medicine, and its species are used as digestive, carminative, antipyretic, antitussive, antiseptic, and healing agents. This review aims to collect information about the essential oils from the most reported species of the Verbenaceae family growing in South America, focusing on their chemical composition, antimicrobial activity, and synergism with commercial antimicrobials. The information gathered comprises the last twenty years of research within the South American region and is summarized taking into consideration the most representative species in terms of their essential oils. These species belong to Aloysia, Lantana, Lippia, Phyla, and Stachytarpheta genera, and the main essential oils they contain are monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes, such as β-caryophyllene, thymol, citral, 1,8-cineole, carvone, and limonene. These compounds have been found to possess antimicrobial activities. The synergism of these essential oils with antibiotics is being studied by several research groups. It constitutes a resource of interest for the potential use of combinations of essential oils and antibiotics in infection treatments. MDPI 2018-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6017629/ /pubmed/29494478 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules23030544 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title Antimicrobial Activity and Chemical Composition of Essential Oils from Verbenaceae Species Growing in South America
title_full Antimicrobial Activity and Chemical Composition of Essential Oils from Verbenaceae Species Growing in South America
title_fullStr Antimicrobial Activity and Chemical Composition of Essential Oils from Verbenaceae Species Growing in South America
title_full_unstemmed Antimicrobial Activity and Chemical Composition of Essential Oils from Verbenaceae Species Growing in South America
title_short Antimicrobial Activity and Chemical Composition of Essential Oils from Verbenaceae Species Growing in South America
title_sort antimicrobial activity and chemical composition of essential oils from verbenaceae species growing in south america
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6017629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29494478
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules23030544
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