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

ORTEGA, GABRIELA; VALLEJO, MARIANA; SANCHEZ, C; CABRERA, JOSE LUIS; CHIABRANDO, GUSTAVO; AGNESE, MARIEL

Sao Pablo

Simposio; ? XX Symposium of Brazilian Medicinal Plants and X Internacional Congreso of Ethnopharmacology; 2008

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 this compounds was evaluated on the viability of cells that exerts 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.