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The Use of Euterpe oleracea Mart. As a New Perspective for Disease Treatment and Prevention
Euterpe oleracea Mart. (EO), popularly known as açaí, belongs to the Arecaceae family and grows abundantly in Brazil. The fruit of this palm tree is widely used because of its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. In this review, a search for literature and patent technological prospecting h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356995/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32466439 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom10060813 |
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author | de Almeida Magalhães, Thalita Sévia Soares de Oliveira Macedo, Pollyana Cristina Converti, Attilio Neves de Lima, Ádley Antonini |
author_facet | de Almeida Magalhães, Thalita Sévia Soares de Oliveira Macedo, Pollyana Cristina Converti, Attilio Neves de Lima, Ádley Antonini |
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description | Euterpe oleracea Mart. (EO), popularly known as açaí, belongs to the Arecaceae family and grows abundantly in Brazil. The fruit of this palm tree is widely used because of its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. In this review, a search for literature and patent technological prospecting has been performed on the use of EO to treat and prevent diseases as well as to prepare pharmaceutical formulations. EO leaves, fruits, and oil stand out for their large number of pharmacological activities such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antimicrobial, antinociceptive, anticancer, anti-atherogenic, and healing activities, protection against metabolic syndromes such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia, and protection of organs such as lung, kidney, liver, heart, and nervous system. While the phytochemical composition is intrinsically linked to identified biological activities, discoveries of the past decade concerning the use of this species have shown pharmacological alternatives mainly in the treatment and prevention of breast cancer and metabolic syndromes. Although studies and inventions on the use of EO though are believed to have been important in light of the pharmacological activities found, few clinical and toxicity tests have been performed. Nevertheless, with the increase of interest in EO, this species is believed to be only at the beginning of the breakthroughs in the development of promising products for the pharmaceutical industry. |
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spelling | pubmed-73569952020-07-23 The Use of Euterpe oleracea Mart. As a New Perspective for Disease Treatment and Prevention de Almeida Magalhães, Thalita Sévia Soares de Oliveira Macedo, Pollyana Cristina Converti, Attilio Neves de Lima, Ádley Antonini Biomolecules Review Euterpe oleracea Mart. (EO), popularly known as açaí, belongs to the Arecaceae family and grows abundantly in Brazil. The fruit of this palm tree is widely used because of its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. In this review, a search for literature and patent technological prospecting has been performed on the use of EO to treat and prevent diseases as well as to prepare pharmaceutical formulations. EO leaves, fruits, and oil stand out for their large number of pharmacological activities such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antimicrobial, antinociceptive, anticancer, anti-atherogenic, and healing activities, protection against metabolic syndromes such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia, and protection of organs such as lung, kidney, liver, heart, and nervous system. While the phytochemical composition is intrinsically linked to identified biological activities, discoveries of the past decade concerning the use of this species have shown pharmacological alternatives mainly in the treatment and prevention of breast cancer and metabolic syndromes. Although studies and inventions on the use of EO though are believed to have been important in light of the pharmacological activities found, few clinical and toxicity tests have been performed. Nevertheless, with the increase of interest in EO, this species is believed to be only at the beginning of the breakthroughs in the development of promising products for the pharmaceutical industry. MDPI 2020-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7356995/ /pubmed/32466439 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom10060813 Text en © 2020 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/). |
spellingShingle | Review de Almeida Magalhães, Thalita Sévia Soares de Oliveira Macedo, Pollyana Cristina Converti, Attilio Neves de Lima, Ádley Antonini The Use of Euterpe oleracea Mart. As a New Perspective for Disease Treatment and Prevention |
title | The Use of Euterpe oleracea Mart. As a New Perspective for Disease Treatment and Prevention |
title_full | The Use of Euterpe oleracea Mart. As a New Perspective for Disease Treatment and Prevention |
title_fullStr | The Use of Euterpe oleracea Mart. As a New Perspective for Disease Treatment and Prevention |
title_full_unstemmed | The Use of Euterpe oleracea Mart. As a New Perspective for Disease Treatment and Prevention |
title_short | The Use of Euterpe oleracea Mart. As a New Perspective for Disease Treatment and Prevention |
title_sort | use of euterpe oleracea mart. as a new perspective for disease treatment and prevention |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356995/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32466439 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom10060813 |
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