“…Therefore, the inhibition of the proliferation and invasion mediated by gelatinases by extracts of plants may be the key to the prevention of the metastasis of neoplastic cells (LONGATTI et al, 2011). The genus Bauhinia is popularly known in Brazil as "Pata-de-Vaca" and is widely used in traditional medicine as antidiabetic and antioxidant agents (FERNANDES et al, 2012). In India, flower buds, flowers, stems, stem barks, leaves, seeds, and roots of the several species of this genus are used as antidiabetic agents and for the treatment of other diseases (e.g., as antipyretic, astringent, tonic, antileprotic, and antitumour agents and for skin wound healing) in the Ayurvedic system of medicine (BODAKHE;RAM, 2007).…”