Table of contents

Volume 17, Issue 4, 2007

Editorial
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Trabalhos originais
Chemical composition and antitumor activity of different wild varieties of Moroccan thyme
Jaafari, Abdeslam; Mouse, Hassan Ait; Rakib, El Mostapha; Mbarek, Lahcen Ait; Tilaoui, Mounir; Benbakhta, Chouaib; Boulli, Abdelali; Abbad, Aziz; Zyad, Abdelmajid

Assessment of anti-hyperlipidemic effect of Citrullus colocynthis
Zamani, Marzyieh; Rahimi, Alireza O.; Mahdavi, Reza; Nikbakhsh, Mohammed; Jabbari, Morteza V.; Rezazadeh, Hassan; Delazar, Abbas; Naha, Lutfun; Sarker, Satajit D.

**Induction of apoptosis by the citotoxic active principle of Espeletia killipii Cuatr. on human cell lines**
Castro, Clemencia de; Riveros de Murcia, Tulia; Jaimes, Gustavo; Téllez Alfonso, Alba N.

**Assessment of effects of a formula used in the traditional Chinese medicine (Buzhong Yi Qi Wan) on the morphologic and osmotic fragility of red blood cells**
Giani, Tania S.; Paoli, Severo de; Presta, Giuseppe A.; Maiworm, Adalgisa I.; Santos-Filho, Sebastião D.; Fonseca, Adenilson S.; Bernardo-Filho, Mario

**Analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of Cheiloclinium cognatum root barks**
Costa, Elson A.; Santos, Lúcio R.; Pontes, Itamar S.; Matos, Lécia G.; Silva, Gilmar A.; Lião, Luciano M.

**Effects of the essential oil obtained from Pilocarpus spicatus Saint-Hilaire (Rutaceae) on the development of Rhodnius prolixus nymphae**
Mello, Cícero B.; Uzeda, Cléber D.; Bernardino, Marana V.; Mendonça-Lopes, Duclécio; Kelecom, Alphonse; Fevereiro, Paulo C. A.; Guerra, Marcelo S.; Oliveira, Adriana P.; Rocha, Leandro M.; Gonzalez, Marcelo S.a

**Comparative anti-inflammatory and antinociceptive effects of terpenoids and an aqueous extract obtained from Croton cajucara Benth**
Perazzo, Fabio F.; Carvalho, José Carlos T.; Rodrigues, Marcelo; Morais, Ellen Kadja L.; Maciel, Maria Aparecida M.

**Antifeedant and allelopathic activities of the hydroalcoholic extract obtained from Neem (Azadirachta indica) leaves**
Silva, José de Paula da; Crotti, Antoni Eduardo Miller; Cunha, Wilson Roberto

**Gastroprotective effect of hydroalcoholic extract from barks of Persea major Kopp (Lauraceae) in rats**
Cosmo, Simone A.; Mayer, Bárbara; Freitas, Cristina S.; Baggio, Cristiane H.; Marques, Maria Consuelo A.

A dehydrorotenoid produced by callus tissue culture and wild plant roots of Boerhaavia coccinea
Santos, Alberdan Silva; Araújo, Silvana Fernades; Goulart, Henrique Fonseca; Caetano, Luiz Carlos; Arruda, Mara Silvia Pinheiro; Santos, Lourivaldo da Silva; SantaAna, Antônio Euzébio Goulart

**Morphological, anatomical, macro and micromolecular markers for Solanum cernuum identification**
Alves, Tânia Maria Almeida; Marengo, Samanta; Machado, Cristiane; Caldeira, Roberta; Carvalho, Omar; Isaias, Rosy Mary dos Santos; Stehmann, João Renato; Zani, Carlos.

**Stem and leaf anatomy of Plectranthus neochilus Schltr., Lamiaceae**
Duarte, Márcia do Rocio; Lopes, Juliano Ferreira

**Influence of season, harvest time and drying on Java citronella (Cymbopogon winterianus Jowitt) volatile oil**
Blank, Arie F.; Costa, Andressa G.; Arrigoni-Blank, Maria de Fátima; Cavalcanti, Sócrates C. H.; Alves, Péricles B.; Innecco, Renato; Ehlert, Polyana A. D.; Sousa, Inajá Francisco de

Fingerprint of volatiles from plant extracts based on SPME-GC-MS
Siqueira, Ezequias P.; Alves, Tânia M. A.; Zani, Carlos L.

Antimicrobial activity of the hydroalcoholic extract of Anacardium occidentale Linn. against multi-drug resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus
Silva, Jackeline G. da; Souza, Ivone A.; Higino, Jane S.; Siqueira-Junior, José P.; Pereira, Jozinete V.; Pereira, Maria do Socorro V.

**Evaluation of the antimicrobial effects of Plinia glomerata (Myrtaceae)**
Serafin, Claudia; Nart, Viviane; Malheiros, Ângela; Cruz, Alexandre Bella; Delle Monache, Franco; Gette, Maria de los Angeles; Zacchino, Susana; Cechinel Filho, Valdir

**Acute pre-clinical toxicological study with the hydroalcoholic extract of the leaves of Cissus sicyoides L. (Vitaceae)**
Vasconcelos, Tereza Helena Cavalcanti de; Modesto-Filho, João; Diniz, Margareth de Fátima Formiga Melo; Santos, Hosana Bandeira; Aguiar, Fernanda Burle de; Moreira, Patrícia Vasconcelos Leitão

**Use of Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa on cholesterol reduction**
Ramos, Alessandra Teixeira; Cunha, Maria Auxiliadora L.; Sabaa-Srur, Armando U. O.; Pires, Vanúsia Cavalcanti F.; Cardoso, Aparecida A.; Diniz, Margareth de F. M.; Medeiros, Carla Campos Muniz

**Antiproliferative activity of extracts and fractions from Virola sebifera Aubl. leaves (Myristicaceae)**
Denny, Carina; Zacharias, Marcela E.; Kohn, Luciana K.; Foglio, ary Ann; Carvalho, João Ernesto de

**Pharmacognostic analysis of the roots of Heteropteris aphrodisiaca O. Mach. (Malpighiaceae)**
Marques, Luís C.; Pieri, Celina de; Roman-Júnior, Walter A.; Cardoso, Mara L. C.; Milaneze-Gutierre, Maria A.; Mello, João C. P.

Determination of daidzein, genistein and glycitein in isoflavone capsules by thin layer chromatography (TLC) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
César, Isabela da Costa; Braga, Fernão Castro; Vianna-Soares, Cristina Duarte; Nunan, Elzíria de Aguiar; Barbosa, Thiago Assis Franco; Moreira-Campos, Ligia Maria

In vitro and in vivo determinations of sun protection factor (SPF) of emulsions with andiroba oil (Carapa guianensis)
Ferrari, Márcio; Oliveira, Maria S. C.; Nakano, Adelino K.; Rocha-Filho, Pedro A.

Trabalho de divulgação
Natural products from marine seaweeds and their antioxidant potential
Rocha, Fabíola Dutra; Pereira, Renato Crespo; Kaplan, Maria Auxiliadora Coelho; Teixeira, Valéria Laneuville

Ethnopharmacognostic survey on botanical compendia for potential cosmeceutic species from Atlantic Forest
Biavatti, Maique W.; Marensi, Vanessa; Leite, Silvana N.; Reis, Ademir