Search for anti-cancer and anti-microbial limonoidal constituents of the medicinal plants of Cerrado and Atlantic Forest flora

• Grant number: 99/00927-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 1999
• End date: February 29, 2000
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Organic Chemistry
• Principal Investigator: Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani
• Grantee: Karumanchi Venkateswara Rao
• Host Institution: Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 98/05074-0 - Conservation and sustainable use of the plant biodiversity from the Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest: chemical diversity and prospecting for potential drugs, AP.BTA.TEM

Abstract

This project will be developed as part of the Thematic project" Conservation and sustainable use of the plant diversity from Cerrado and Atlantic Forest: chemical diversity and potential drugs" Proc. Nº 98/05074-0. The objective of this research is to isolate and to elucidate compounds with anti-cancer and anti-microbial activities on the basis of therapeutic claims in traditional medicine. Of particular interest in this project proposal is to explore the anti-cancer and anto-microbial activities of the limonoidal constituents which are distributed in the plants belonging to Meliaceae family and allied. (AU)