Huperzia saururus (Lam.) Trevis. extract, assays of cellular viability.

ORTEGA G; VALLEJO G; SÁNCHEZ C; CABRERA JL; CHIABRANDO G; AGNESE M.

São Paulo, Brasil

Simposio; • XX Symposium of Brazilian Medicinal Plants and X Internacional Congress of Ethnopharmacology; 2008

Asociación de Etnofarmacología

We analyzed cellular viability on Hamster ovary cells line CHO-K1, showing

That  Huperzia saururus alkaloid extract doesn’t produce cellular death at the assayed concentrations. In this opportunity the effect of the alkaloid compounds was evaluated on the viability of cells that exert the function of protect neurons against toxic actions of metabolic origin and ischemic (neuroprotectors), such the case of the Muller glial cells of the retina.