Piperine's potentials: A study carried out by means of scientific and technological prospection techniques

Abstract

Piperine is the majority product of the species Piper nigrum L, popularly known in Brazil as black pepper. This compound presents numerous pharmacological properties of great interest in different fields of science. In this way, the present article had as objective to carry out a scientific and technological prospection study on this molecule, and for this, prospection techniques were employed using the Scopus, INPI and LENS databases. As for scientific publications, it was observed that China was the country holder of the largest number of scientific articles; Brazil appears in fourth position. About the technological prospection, the mapping performed showed that there are still a very limited number of patent publications. In the INPI database only 03 patents were obtained and in the LENS database 36 were obtained. In addition, the article brings discussions related to prospecting data, which are necessary for the understanding of the main proposal; demonstrate the innovative potential that piperine presents.