The etymological meaning of the term Pharmacognosy is the knowledge (from gnosis) of poisons (from pharmakon). Pharmacognosy is therefore that scientific discipline that deals with the study of biologically active...
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The research activity of the Laboratory of Pharmacognosy of the Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences “Rodolfo Paoletti” is primarily aimed at the study of medicinal plants and foods, in which the pharmacological approach is combined with rigorous chemical investigation, in order to correlate the observed biological effect to one or more chemical entities.
The Laboratory of Pharmacognosy collaborates with researchers from other national and international universities, as well as collaborating with important companies in the pharmaceutical and food supplements sector in the development and formulation of new natural health products.
Food Chemistry is the scientific discipline that studies the composition, structure, properties, and chemical transformations of foods, as well as the relationships between food components, production processes, quality, safety, and...
Read moreThe research of the Laboratory of Pharmacognosy, through the use of in vitro and in vivo assays, is aimed at studying the activity of natural products in the context of...
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