出版社：Grupo de Pesquisa Metodologias em Ensino e Aprendizagem em Ciências
摘要：Bromelain has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-cancer properties and also works as an aid in the digestion process and as a cardioprotective agent. The aim of the study was to analyze through the scientific literature the mucolytic action of bromelain. This is a literature review of the literature, which was used to generate the guiding question: “What scientific evidence shows the mucolytic action of bromelain”. Seven studies included in this review, all with a quantitative approach to data (100%); concentrated mainly in the year 2017 (42.9%) and all were in the English language (100%), with origin of studies published in Austria (42.9%), the European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics concentrated more publications, corresponding to 28.6%. The studies addressed the use of bromelain associated with other substances, the effects of bromelain, such as improving permeability for drugs, and its action on the intestinal mucus, making it more permeable. The study allowed for the expansion of knowledge about bromelain or bromelain as a mucolytic agent, its nutraceutical potentials and action against some pathologies, in addition to its possible use by the pharmaceutical industry for the creation of drugs that overcome the mucolytic barrier more easily.
