Faculdade

Departamento

Pedro Jorge Macedo de Abreu

Professor Associado Aposentado
Secção de Química

Interesses Científicos

Química de produtos naturais
Farmacognosia
Química combinatória
Sintese industrial de fármacos 

Publicações Representativas

1. “Antioxidant Phenolic Glycosides from Moricandia arvensis”, Hatem Braham, Zine Mighri, Hichem Ben Jannet, Susan Matthew, and Pedro M. Abreu, Journal of Natural Products, 68, 517-522 (2005).
2. “New Ceramides from Rantherium suaveolens”, M. Habib Oueslati, H. Ben Jannet, Zine Mighri, Pedro M. Abreu, Lipids, 40, 1075-1079 (2005).
3. “Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activity of a medicinal tincture from Pedilanthus tithymaloides”, Pedro Abreu, Susan Matthew,Tania González, David Costa, Marcela A. Segundo, and Eduarda Fernandes, Life Sciences, 78, 1578-1585 (2006).
4. “New Macrocyclic Lathyrane Diterpenes, from Euphorbia lagascae, as Inhibitors of Efflux Pump of Tumour Cells”, Noélia Duarte, Joseph Molnár, Nora Gyémánt, Pedro M. Abreu, Maria José U. Ferreira, Planta Medica, 72, 162-168 (2006).
5. “Long Chain Alkyl and Alkenyl Phenols from the Roots of Ozoroa insignis”, Yonghong Liu and Pedro J.M. Abreu, J. Braz. Chem. Soc., 17, 527-532 (2006).
6. “Euphoportlandols A and B, tetracylic diterpene polyesters from Euphorbia portlandica and their anti-MDR effects in cancer cells”, Ana M. Madureira, Nora Gyémánt, José R. Ascenso, Pedro M. Abreu, Joseph Molnár, and Maria-José U. Ferreira, Journal of Natural Products, 69, 950-953 (2006).
7.“Tirucallane triterpenes from the roots of Ozoroa insignis”, Yonghong Liu and Pedro Abreu, Phytochemistry, 67, 1309-1315 (2006).
8. “Heterocyclic terpenes: Linear furano- and pyrrolo-terpenoids”, Yonghong Liu, Si Zhang, P.J.M. Abreu, Natural Product Reports, 23, 630-651 (2006).
9. “Phytochemical Constituents from Salsola tetrandra”, M. Habib Oueslati, Hichem Ben Jannet, Zine Mighri, J. Chriaa, and Pedro M. Abreu, Journal of Natural Products, 69, 1366-1369 (2006).
10. “Ellagic acid glycosides from Turpinia ternata”, Susan Matthew, Kuo-Ching Kao, Yuan-Shiun Chang, Pedro M. Abreu, Natural Product Research, 21, 83-88 (2007).
11. “High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Determination of Glycoalkaloids in Potatoes from Conventional, Integrated, and Organic Crop Systems” Pedro Abreu, Angela Relva, Susan Matthew, Zulmira Gomes, and Zilda Morais, Food Control, 18, 40-44 (2007).
12. “A new C9 nor-isoprenoid glucoside from Rantherium suaveolens”, M. Habib Oueslati, H. Ben Jannet, Zine Mighri, Susan Matthew, and Pedro M. Abreu, Natural Product Research 21, 884-888 (2007).
13. “Antimalarial Flavonol Glycosides from Euphorbia hirta”, Y. Liu, N. Murakami, H. Ji, Pedro Abreu, S. Zhang, Pharmaceutical Biology, 45, 278-281 (2007
14. “Antileishmanial activity of piceatannol isolated from Euphorbia lagascae seeds", Noélia Duarte, Oliver Kayser, Pedro Abreu, and Maria José U. Ferreira, Phytotherapy Research, 22, 455-457 (2008).
15. “Saoussanabiloide, a novel antifungal alkaloid from Echiochilon fruticosum Desf. growing in Tunisia”, S. Hammami, N. Migrhi, H. Ben Jannet, N. Boughalleb, A. Zardi-Bergaoui, A. Nefzi, P. M. Abreu, Z. Mighri, Natural Product Research, 23, 1466-1471 (2009).
16.“Effects of strictosamide on mouse brain and kidney Na+,K+-ATPase and Mg2+-ATPase activities”, M.F. Candeias, P. Abreu, A. Pereira, J. Cruz-Morais, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 121, 117–122 (2009).
17. “Phenolic constituents of Convolvulus dorycnium L flowers”, Sana Nacef, Hichem Ben Jannet, Pedro Abreu, Zine Mighri, Phytochemistry Letters, 3, 66–69 (2010).
18. Hendrik Luesch and Pedro Abreu, “A Natural Product Approach to Drug Discovery: Probing Modes of Action of Antitumor Agents by Genome-Scale cDNA Library Screening”, in Ligand-Macromolecular Interactions in Drug Discovery, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 572, Ed. A.C. Roque, The Humana Press Inc., Chapt 17, 261-277 (2010).
19. P. M. Abreu; P. Branco; S. Matthew, “Natural product-like combinatorial libraries towards the discovery of lead compounds”, in Combinatorial Synthesis of Natural Product Based Libraries, vol. 2, Ed. A. M Boldi, Combinatorial Chemistry Series, CRC Press, Chapt 11, 257-352, 2006. 

Websites

http://www2.dq.fct.unl.pt/QOA/abreu