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Hospital disinfectant efficacy testing: Experimental evidence towards the requirement of common international regulatory framework, the case of Costa Rica
(2023)
Background: Costa Rica, as many developing countries around the world, lacks a specific regulatory framework for hospital disinfectant efficacy testing. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of disinfectant ...
Ethnobotany, Pharmacology and Major Bioactive Metabolites from Impatiens Genus Plants and their Related Applications
(2023-11-27)
Impatiens genus comprises several species important for agriculture and food industries, ethnobotany,
and research in pharmacology, phytochemistry, biotechnology and pharmaceutical sciences. In this paper, a systematic ...
Evaluación del poder antioxidante, propiedades fisicoquímicas y composición fitoquimica de extractos de semilla de bactris gasipaes para formulaciones dermocosméticas
Evaluation of the antioxidant power, physicochemical properties and phytochemical composition of seed extracts of bactris gasipaes for dermocosmetic formulations
(2019)
Bactris gasipaes es una palmera de la cual se obtiene una fruta conocida comúnmente
en Costa Rica como Pejibaye, es autóctona de América Central, muy común en la alimentación de
Costa Rica, por su alto contenido de almidón ...
Importance of the Quality Control of Herbal Teas: Evaluation of Two Senna Leaf Tisanes Brands Commercialized in Costa Rica through Physicochemical and Microbiological Assays Stipulated in the Central American Technical Regulation 11.03.56.09
(2018)
The senna leaf contains a powerful natural laxative called anthraquinone. Despite this indication, the quality control of this raw material is not strict, compared to other substances with pharmacological properties, which ...
Socioeconomic and intellectual property analysis in pharmaceutical natural products
(2018-02)
The absence of a consolidated definition of the term “natural product” is a problem to establish a relationship between this concept and intellectual property. The intellectual property includes many different categories, ...
General aspects about Allium sativum - a review
Aspectos generales del Allium sativum - una revisión
(2021-09-20)
Introduction: Garlic has been used as a food and medicinal plant through the years. Antimicrobial, antiviral, and immunostimulatory effects are attributed to garlic, so it is widely recommended to treat diseases like asthma, ...
A worldwide comparative-diagnostic study of medicinal natural products regulatory status
(2016)
Herbal products encompass a variety of preparations of plant origin
that are the oldest form that humanity has been using to treat diseases,
a practice that has grown enormously in the last decade. The aim of
this study ...
A Journey through the History of Drug Quality Control, from Greece to Costa Rica
(2021)
This review describes the evolution and development of drug quality control throughout different times in history. A bibliographic
research was conducted from the database JSTOR from the University of Costa Rica. This ...
Proposal to improve weaknesses in pharmacy at the University of Costa Rica
(2018-06-01)
Introduction: In the complex educational process involved different actors interacting in a given context and that is why different models and strategies try to explain and address the causes that affect student academic ...
Validation of an enzyme-linked inmunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit for the quantification of gliadins in medicines and cosmetics
(2021)
Celiac disease is caused by intolerance to gluten and the only current treatment is a
gluten-free diet. Gliadins are the alcohol-soluble proteins that make up the majority of
gluten and are the ones that have the most ...