antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of plants from northeast of mexico植物的抗菌和抗氧化活动从墨西哥东北部.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2011, Article ID 536139, 6 pages doi:10.1093/ecam/nep127 Original Article Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Activities of Plants from Northeast of Mexico ´ ´ ´ Ricardo Salazar-Aranda, Luis Alejandro Perez-Lopez, Joel Lopez-Arroyo, ´ ´ Blanca Alicia Alanıs-Garza, and Noemı Waksman de Torres Departamento de Quımica Analıtica, Facultad de Medicina, U.A.N.L. Monterrey, P.O. Box 2316, ´ ´ Sucursal Tecnologico, 64841, N. L. Mexico, Mexico ´ ´ ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Noemı Waksman de Torres, nwaksman@fm.uanl.mx Received 5 March 2009; Accepted 21 July 2009 Copyright © 2011 Ricardo Salazar-Aranda et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Traditional medicine has a key role in health care worldwide. Obtaining scientific information about the efficacy and safety of the plants from our region is one of the goals of our research group. In this report, 17 plants were selected and collected in different localities from northeast Mexico. The dried plants were separated into leaves, flowers, fruit, stems, roots and bark. Each part was extracted with methanol, and 39 crude extracts were prepared. The extracts were tested for their antimicrobial activity using three Gram-negative bacterial strains (Pseudomona