Plantas medicinales antioxidantes: acuáticas y terrestres Antioxidant medicinal plants: aquatic and terrestrial
Plantas medicinales antioxidantes: acuáticas y terrestres Antioxidant medicinal plants: aquatic and terrestrial
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DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.0472311106
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Palavras-chave: Antioxidantes, Plantas medicinales, Metabolitos secundarios, Algas.
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Keywords: Antioxidants, Medicinal plants, Secondary metabolites, Algae.
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Abstract: Medicinal plants represent a source of therapeutically useful substances, and many of them stand out for their antioxidant properties, which are currently being increasingly used due to the benefits associated with their consumption. This research seeks to know the most up-to-date trends in the use and exploitation of some medicinal plants with antioxidant capacity. For this, a collection of information on the use of them was carried out, including relevant data considered in the classification of their uses and applications. The bibliographic review corresponds to a sample of articles identified in the Google academic, Redalyc and Scielo databases within the period 2008 - 2022. The search was aimed to identify families that biosynthesize metabolites with antioxidant functions, whose uses make them useful materials of biotechnological benefit with a positive impact on health. A description of the profile of secondary metabolites of different plants was obtained in the development, many of them distributed in Central and South America, whose recent studies have reported significant antioxidant activity that tends towards cellular models, as is the case of Cinnamon, Maca, various citrus fruits, calendula, Lemon verbena, Moringa, among others, without leaving aside the algae in its different types. Likewise, a comparison of the results by various authors in their experiments was generated, to produce, transform and obtain substances with antioxidant applications that allow combating the effects of free radicals and oxidative stress on health, both human and animal. In the same way, other applications not associated with the medical-pharmacological area stand out, but with an industrial impact in the elaboration of paints, anticorrosive materials and coatings. The results confirm and improve the projection of antioxidant medicinal plants as an important source of metabolites (tannins, polyphenols, flavonoids, phytoestrogens), whose activity could be refined in biotechnological systems, to understand their behavior in more real and successful functional scenarios.
- Shailili M. Moreno Morales
- Haydelba Trinidad D´Armas Regnault
- Camila Anabelle Vinces Manrique
- Mariela Carolina Loján Avellán