TY - JOUR AU - Espanha, Lívia Greghi AU - Resende, Flávia Aparecida AU - de Sousa Lima Neto, José AU - Boldrin, Paula Karina AU - Nogueira, Catarine Haidê AU - de Camargo, Mariana Santoro AU - De Grandis, Rone Aparecido AU - dos Santos, Lourdes Campaner AU - Vilegas, Wagner AU - Varanda, Eliana Aparecida PY - 2014 DA - 2014/06/05 TI - Mutagenicity and antimutagenicity of six Brazilian Byrsonima species assessed by the Ames test JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 182 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - In various regions of Brazil, several species of the genus Byrsonima (Malpighiaceae) are widely used to treat gastrointestinal complications. This genus has about 150 species of shrubs and trees distributed over the entire Neotropical region. Various biological activities have been identified in these plants, especially antioxidant, antimicrobial and topical and systemic anti-inflammatory activities. The aim of this study was to investigate the mutagenicity and antimutagenicity of hydroalcoholic leaf extracts of six species of Byrsonima: B. verbascifolia, B. correifolia, B. coccolobifolia, B. ligustrifolia, B. fagifolia and B. intermedia by the Salmonella microsome assay (Ames test). SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-14-182 DO - 10.1186/1472-6882-14-182 ID - Espanha2014 ER -