Bioactive Essential Oils from Cuban Plants: An Inspiration to Drug Development

Aromatic plants and essential oils are important agents as complementary and alternative medicines in many cultures and geographical locations. In this review, a literature search on essential oils from Cuba, their chemical compositions, and their pharmacological properties was carried out. Out of 1...

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Autores principales: Monzote, Lianet, García, Jesús, González, Rosalia, Scotti, Marcus Tullius, Setzer, William N.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8620706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34834878
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10112515
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author Monzote, Lianet
García, Jesús
González, Rosalia
Scotti, Marcus Tullius
Setzer, William N.
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description Aromatic plants and essential oils are important agents as complementary and alternative medicines in many cultures and geographical locations. In this review, a literature search on essential oils from Cuba, their chemical compositions, and their pharmacological properties was carried out. Out of 171 published scientific articles on essential oils of Cuban plants, a total of 31 documents, focused on both chemical composition and pharmacological properties, were considered for this review. In general, an increase in articles published in the last decade was noted, particularly in recognized international journals in English. Myrtaceae and Piperaceae were the most representative families collected in the occidental area of the country. Leaves and aerial parts were predominantly used, while a wide and variable number of components were identified, including terpenes, aliphatic derivatives, sulfur-containing compounds, phenylpropanoids, alkaloids and amine-type compounds. Finally, different biological activities were reported such as antiprotozoal, antibacterial, antifungal, cytotoxic, anthelmintic, larvicidal and insecticidal. In conclusion, we encourage further studies that would promote the use of essential oils from Cuban plants in new pharmaceutical products.
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spelling pubmed-86207062021-11-27 Bioactive Essential Oils from Cuban Plants: An Inspiration to Drug Development Monzote, Lianet García, Jesús González, Rosalia Scotti, Marcus Tullius Setzer, William N. Plants (Basel) Review Aromatic plants and essential oils are important agents as complementary and alternative medicines in many cultures and geographical locations. In this review, a literature search on essential oils from Cuba, their chemical compositions, and their pharmacological properties was carried out. Out of 171 published scientific articles on essential oils of Cuban plants, a total of 31 documents, focused on both chemical composition and pharmacological properties, were considered for this review. In general, an increase in articles published in the last decade was noted, particularly in recognized international journals in English. Myrtaceae and Piperaceae were the most representative families collected in the occidental area of the country. Leaves and aerial parts were predominantly used, while a wide and variable number of components were identified, including terpenes, aliphatic derivatives, sulfur-containing compounds, phenylpropanoids, alkaloids and amine-type compounds. Finally, different biological activities were reported such as antiprotozoal, antibacterial, antifungal, cytotoxic, anthelmintic, larvicidal and insecticidal. In conclusion, we encourage further studies that would promote the use of essential oils from Cuban plants in new pharmaceutical products. MDPI 2021-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8620706/ /pubmed/34834878 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10112515 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8620706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34834878
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10112515
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