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Efecto de la ingestión de Banisteriopsis caapi y Psychotria viridis ‘Binomio ayahuasca’ en el hipocampo del cerebro de ratas

Anales de la Facultad de Medicina, 2016
Objetivo. Evaluar el efecto de la ingestión de Banisteriopsis caapi y Psychotria viridis ‘Binomio ayahuasca’ en el hipocampo de cerebro de ratas. Diseño. Estudio experimental, descriptivo, analítico, transversal. Institución.
Américo Castro, Norma Ramos, José Juárez, Luis Inostroza, Juan Ponce, Fritz Choquesillo, Luis Félix, Jackeline Escudero, Arnaldo Navarro, Susan Huaman, Bryan Machaca, Julio López, Emilio Ramirez, Julio Ruiz, José Raez   +14 more
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REVALORACIÓN ANCESTRAL DE LA (Banisteriopsis caapi) AYAHUASCA MEDIANTE LA PRODUCCIÓN DE PLANTONES EN LA UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL INTERCULTURAL DE LA AMAZONIA [PDF]

Tzhoecoen, 2019
El presenta trabajo de investigación se desarrolló en las instalaciones de la universidad nacional intercultural de la amazonia provincia de coronel portillo distrito de Yarinacocha en el año 2017, el objetivo fue  proponer e incentivar la repoblación de
Edwin Miranda Ruiz, Aldo Joao Cárdenas Oscanoa, Ricardo Junior Reyes Pires, Jherson Edu Sangama Bardales   +3 more
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Resilience and Brain Changes in Long-Term Ayahuasca Users: Insights From Psychometric and fMRI Pattern Recognition. [PDF]

J Magn Reson Imaging
ABSTRACT Background Ayahuasca is an Amazonian psychedelic brew that contains dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and beta carbolines. Prolonged use has shown changes in cognitive‐behavioral tasks, and in humans, there is evidence of changes in cortical thickness and an increase in neuroplasticity factors that could lead to modifications in functional neural ...
Ramos LR, Fernandes O, Sanchez TA.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Role of Ayahuasca in Colorectal Adenocarcinoma Cell Survival, Proliferation and Oxidative Stress [PDF]

Pharmaceuticals
The psychedelic beverage ayahuasca is originally obtained by Banisteriopsis caapi (B. caapi) (BC) and Psychotria viridis (P. viridis) (PV). However, sometimes these plant species are replaced by others that mimic the original effects, such as Mimosa ...
Joana Gonçalves, Mariana Feijó, Sílvia Socorro, Ângelo Luís, Eugenia Gallardo, Ana Paula Duarte   +5 more
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Sequencing the Vine of the Soul: Full Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Banisteriopsis caapi. [PDF]

Genome Announc, 2018
Banisteriopsis caapi is a native South American vine that has been used for centuries by certain tribes along the Amazon basin to treat illnesses.
Ramachandran P, Zhang N, McLaughlin WB, Luo Y, Handy S, Duke JA, Vasquez R, Ottesen A.   +7 more
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Ari’s Burger: Vignettes of Iquitos (Part 3)

Mundo Amazónico, 2020
This is the final episode of a three-part story about a visit to Iquitos at the time of the new millennium by the narrator, who lives in Colombia and has been drinking yajé (ayahuasca) with its indigenous shamans.
Jimmy Weiskopf
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Ayahuasca comes to the city!

Mundo Amazónico, 2022
Ayahuasca has spread from indigenous Amazonia to the industrialized world, in the form of ceremonies catering to Westerners, a corpus of academic studies and personal accounts and depictions of it in novels and films.
Jimmy Weiskopf
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Knowledge coproduction to improve assessments of nature's contributions to people

Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Sustainability science needs new approaches to produce, share, and use knowledge because there are major barriers to translating research into policy and practice. Multiple actors hold relevant knowledge for sustainability including indigenous and local people who have developed over generations knowledge, methods, and practices that ...
Améline Vallet, Bruno Locatelli, Merelyn Valdivia‐Díaz, Yésica Quispe Conde, Gerardina Matencio García, Alejandrina Ramos Criales, Francisca Valverde Huamanñahui, Santusa Ramos Criales, David Makowski, Sandra Lavorel   +9 more
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The dark web trades wildlife, but mostly for use as drugs

People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 3, Page 999-1009, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Contemporary wildlife trade is massively facilitated by the Internet. By design, the dark web is one layer of the Internet that is difficult to monitor and continues to lack thorough investigation. Here, we accessed a comprehensive database of dark web marketplaces to search across c. 2 million dark web advertisements over 5 years using c. 7 k
Oliver C. Stringham, Jacob Maher, Charlotte R. Lassaline, Lisa Wood, Stephanie Moncayo, Adam Toomes, Sarah Heinrich, Freyja Watters, Charlotte Drake, Sebastian Chekunov, Katherine G. W. Hill, David Decary‐Hetu, Lewis Mitchell, Joshua V. Ross, Phillip Cassey   +14 more
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Classic psychedelics and alcohol use disorders: A systematic review of human and animal studies

Addiction Biology, Volume 27, Issue 6, November 2022., 2022
Interest of classic psychedelics as potential treatment for alcoholism has grown. Psychedelics could act through the modification of emotional and cognitive states. More studies are needed to analyse the effect of psychedelics on alcoholism. Abstract Classic psychedelics refer to substances such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin ...
Javier Calleja‐Conde, Jose Angel Morales‐García, Víctor Echeverry‐Alzate, Kora Mareen Bühler, Elena Giné, Jose Antonio López‐Moreno   +5 more
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