Maria Luísa Serralheiro

TL;DR: Hypericum undulatum, Melissa officinalis and Laurus nobilis showed both high AChE inhibitory capacity and antioxidant activity and most of the plants showed values around 90%.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the results of a study aimed at evaluating the antiradical activity, the antioxidant activity and the acetylcholinesterase (E.C. 3.7.) inhibitory capacity of essential oils, ethanol and boiling water extracts from five aromatic herbs growing wild in Portugal and used in traditional food preparations: fennel ( Foeniculum vulgare), mint ( Mentha spicata), pennyroyal, Mentha pulegium, rosemary ( Rosmarinus officinalis), and wild thyme (

TL;DR: Plectranthus barbatus, known as “falso boldo” in Brazil, is used in herbal tea or cooked as a vegetable, and extracts from P. barbatus were analysed for their inhibition of acetylcholinesterase and their antioxidant activity as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: A chemically mediated reduction of the azo bond coupled to biological sulphate reduction, thus seemed to account for the high decolourisation yields of both dyes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the chemical composition, antioxidant activities and acetylcholinesterase inhibitory properties of the essential oils from fresh leaves, dried leaves and roots collected from three different locations in southern Tunisia, were evaluated.