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Plants and their active constituents from South, Central, and North America with hypoglycemic activity

2005; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 15; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0102-695x2005000400021

1981-528X

José Maria Barbosa‐Filho, Tereza Helena Cavalcanti de Vasconcelos, A. A. J. Alencar, Leônia Maria Batista, Rinalda Araújo Guerra de Oliveira, Diego Nunes Guedes, Heloina de Sousa Falcão, Marcelo D. Moura, Margareth de Fátima Formiga Melo Diniz, João Modesto-Filho,

Pharmacology and Obesity Treatment

There has been marked interest in recent years in the use of plants for the treatment of diabetes. Plants have been found in many countries which have been indicated as having hypoglycemic activity. The present work is an up-to-date review with 178 references of crude plant extracts and chemically defined molecules with hypoglycemic activity from South, Central and North America. The review refers to 224 plants with their families, parts used and type of extract, organism tested and activity. It also includes 40 compounds isolated from those plants. Some aspects of recent research with natural products from plants directed to the treatment of diabetes are discussed.