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Fruit Traits Reflect Adaptation to Dispersers Along a Tropical Elevational Gradient. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
This study investigates how fruit traits related to frugivore dispersal—specifically diameter, colour and presentation—vary along an elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea. Results showed that fruit diameter decreases with elevation, bird‐attracting colours are more common at higher elevations, and branch‐borne (ramiflorous) fruits increase with ...
Hazell RJ, Kaina GS, Sam K, Souto-Vilarós D, Koagouw W, Novotny V, Peck MR, Stewart AJA.   +7 more
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Nutmeg Beyond Spice: A Review on Its Therapeutic Potential, Safety and Industrial Promise. [PDF]

Food Sci Nutr
This review highlights the current findings on the pharmacological potential of M. fragrans, focusing on its health benefits and applications. M. fragrans contains alkaloids, terpenoids, phenols, flavonoids and glycosides; with myristicin, macelignan, safrole and sabinene as prime bioactive components.
Tariq D, Sultan MT, Noman AM, Raza H, Akram S, Mohamed HM, Khan MA, Imran M, Hussain M, Memon AG, Atif M, Mohamed GA, Ibrahim SRM, Jbawi EA.   +13 more
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Relationship Between Endemic and Invasive Frogs on Grenada. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
The endemic Grenada frog (Pristimantis euphronides) is found only in high elevation cloud forests, habitat that is being invaded by the introduced Lesser Antillean frog (Eleutherodactylus johnstonei) and threatened by climate change. Between 2004 and 2020, our field team surveyed three key sites in the central highlands of Grenada to monitor ...
Harrison B, Beston J.
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New Anticancer 4-Aryldihydropyrimidinone-5-Carboxylates Targeting Hsp90. [PDF]

Chem Biol Drug Des
We report the computational design and early structure–activity relationship optimisation (SAR) studies on new anticancer 4‐aryldihydropyrimidinone‐5‐carboxylate derivatives as inhibitors of heat shock protein 90. Analogue 5d emerged as a useful hit compound, combining inhibition of colony formation in breast cancer cell lines with effective Hsp90 ...
Bordoni C, Elstow TZ, Brancale A, Clarkson RWE, Westwell AD.   +4 more
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Aromatic Volatile Compounds of Essential Oils: Distribution, Chemical Perspective, Biological Activity, and Clinical Applications. [PDF]

Food Sci Nutr
The review explores the origins, chemical structures, and bioactivities of aromatic volatile compounds in essential oils from various plants. It highlights their therapeutic uses in treating disorders like infections and IBS, as well as their applications in food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
Mohammed HA, Sulaiman GM, Al-Saffar AZ, Mohsin MH, Khan RA, Hadi NA, Ismael SB, Elshibani F, Ismail A, Abomughaid MM.   +9 more
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Inhibitory Effects of Essential Oils of Cinnamon zeylanicum and Myristica fragrans against Brucella abortus 544 Inoculated in Fresh Baladi Cheese

Journal of Food Quality and Hazards Control, 2021
Background: Essential Oils (EOs) are natural metabolic products of plants that contain a condensed chemical hydrophobic liquid compounds. The aim of this study was to evaluate inhibitory effects of EOs of Cinnamon zeylanicum and Myristica fragrans ...
A. Al-Mariri, R. Ismail, A. Allaham, B. Alobeid, L. Alhallab   +4 more
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Secondary Metabolites and Potential Antioxidants of Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt) Mace from West Java

Sains Natural, 2022
Nutmeg mace is a mesh-shaped seed coat that is bright red when the fruit is ripe and yellowish-white when immature, which generally contains secondary metabolites such as flavonoids and phenolics. This study aimed to examine the content of flavonoids and
Rahmatul Kartini Erza, Karmanah Karmanah, Nurlela Nurlela   +2 more
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Butterflies of the myristica swamp forests of Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary in the southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2019
Myristica swamps are unique freshwater swamp forests characterised by predominance of tree species of the Myristicaceae family.  There have been few published works on the flora and fauna of myristica swamps but studies on butterflies have been scanty ...
Prabhakaran Chandrika Sujitha, Gopal Prasad, Kalesh Sadasivan   +2 more
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Computational and Preclinical Prediction of the Antimicrobial Properties of an Agent Isolated from Monodora myristica: A Novel DNA Gyrase Inhibitor

Molecules, 2023
The African nutmeg (Monodora myristica) is a medically useful plant. We, herein, aimed to critically examine whether bioactive compounds identified in the extracted oil of Monodora myristica could act as antimicrobial agents. To this end, we employed the
Sunday Amos Onikanni, Bashir Lawal, Adewale Oluwaseun Fadaka, Oluwafemi Bakare, Ezekiel Adewole, Muhammad Taher, Junaidi Khotib, Deny Susanti, Babatunji Emmanuel Oyinloye, Basiru Olaitan Ajiboye, Oluwafemi Adeleke Ojo, Nicole Remaliah Samantha Sibuyi   +11 more
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Amino acid and fatty acid profile of twenty wild plants used as spices in Cameroon [PDF]

, 2016
The amino acids and fatty acids of twenty wild plants used as spices which were collected in Cameroon were investigated. The most important of total non-essential amino acids (TNEAA) contents have been found in A. daniellii (52.04%), C. frutescens (50.53%
Abdou Bouba, Armand, Abul-Hamd El-Sayed, Mehanni, Augustin, Goudoum, Mbofung, Carl Moses, Montet, Didier, Njintang Yanou, Nicolas, Ponka, Roger, Scher, Joel   +7 more
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