Plant extracts and cytotoxicity studies

[Excerpt] Natural products are typically secondary metabolites, produced by plants and microorganisms in response to external stimuli such as nutritional changes. They are widely used in the pharmaceutical industry for their remarkable structural diversity and range of pharmacological activities.[...]This document was produced under project PTDC/ASP-AGR/30154/2017 (POCI-01-0145FEDER-030154) of the COMPETE 2020 program, co-financed by the FEDER and the European Union. The authors acknowledge also to Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal), and FEDER-COMPETE-QREN-EU for financial support to the research centres CQ/UM (UID/QUI/00686/2019) and CFUM (UID/FIS/04650/2019). The NMR spectrometer Bruker Avance III 400 is part of the National NMR Network and was purchased within the framework of the National Program for Scientific Re-equipment, contract REDE/1517/RMN/2005 with funds from POCI 2010 (FEDER) and FCT