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Building an inclusive botany: The “radicle” dream

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 3, Page 544-557, May 2024.
It is important to recognize how our current understanding of plants has been shaped by diverse cultural contexts, as this underscores the importance of valuing and incorporating contributions from all knowledge systems in scientific pursuits. This approach emphasizes the ongoing bias, including within scientific practices, and the necessity of ...
Makenzie E. Mabry, Nuala Caomhanach, R. Shawn Abrahams, Michelle L. Gaynor, Kasey Khanh Pham, Tanisha M. Williams, Kathleen S. Murphy, Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis   +9 more
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Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Local Tissue Damage Induced by Snake Venoms: An Overview from Traditional Use to Pharmacological Evidence

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
Snakebites are a serious problem in public health due to their high morbimortality. Most of snake venoms produce intense local tissue damage, which could lead to temporary or permanent disability in victims. The available specific treatment is the antivenom serum therapy, whose effectiveness is reduced against these effects.
Juliana Félix-Silva, Arnóbio Antônio Silva-Junior, Silvana Maria Zucolotto, Matheus de Freitas Fernandes-Pedrosa, Rainer W. Bussmann   +4 more
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Kajian Aktivitas Antidiabetes Dari Ekstrak Etanol Dan Fraksinya Dari Daun Singawalang (Petiveria Alliacea L.) [PDF]

, 2016
Tanaman singawalang sebagai obat herbal antidiabetes masih belum banyak dikenal oleh masyarakat dan juga penelitiannya belum cukup mendalam sebagai suatu obat herbal Indonesia.
Adnyana, I. K. (I), Fisheri, N. (Neng), Susilawati, E. (Elis)   +2 more
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Measuring Antioxidant Activity in Bioorganic Samples by the Differential Oxygen Uptake Apparatus: Recent Advances

Journal of Chemistry, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
The measure of O2 consumption during the inhibited autoxidation of an easily oxidizable substrate is one of the most reliable and predictive methods to assess antioxidant activity, especially for structure‐activity relationship studies, for food and industrial applications. The differential oxygen uptake apparatus described herein represents a powerful
Riccardo Amorati, Andrea Baschieri, Luca Valgimigli, Jacques Lalevee   +3 more
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Efecto de la Petiveria alliacea en el tratamiento de alergias respiratorias en Rattus norvegicus cepa Wistar [PDF]

, 2016
La Petiveria alliacea es una planta utilizada en diferentes estudios, en donde ha sido efectiva para las patologías respiratorias en el humano, obteniendo resultados satisfactorios.
Quiceno Gallego, Diana Carolina
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Southeast Asian Medicinal Plants as a Potential Source of Antituberculosis Agent

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
Despite all of the control strategies, tuberculosis (TB) is still a major cause of death globally and one‐third of the world’s population is infected with TB. The drugs used for TB treatment have drawbacks of causing adverse side effects and emergence of resistance strains.
Shuaibu Babaji Sanusi, Mohd Fadzelly Abu Bakar, Maryati Mohamed, Siti Fatimah Sabran, Muhammad Murtala Mainasara, Ghee T. Tan   +5 more
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Aktivitas Anti Bakteri Singawalang (Petiveria Alliaceae) Terhadap Bakteri Yang Resisten Dan Peka Terhadap Antibiotik [PDF]

, 2012
Tanaman singawalang (Petiveria alliaceae) secara tradisional di Indonesia digunakan sebagai analgetik, anti inflamasi dan obat untuk batuk darah. Obat tradisional yang mengandung Petiveria alliacea telah digunakan di Karibia, Amerika Latin, Afrika Barat ...
Adyana, I. K. (I), Mulyani, Y. (Y), Sukandar, E. Y. (E)   +2 more
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In vitro antimicrobial activity of total extracts of the leaves of Petiveria alliacea L. (Anamu) [PDF]

, 2013
The antimicrobial activity of 13 total extracts was evaluated, 10 soft extracts (B) and 3 blended extracts (E) prepared from dry and fresh leaves of Petiveria alliacea L.
González Giro, Zenia, Hidalgo Rodríguez, Adrian, Marín Morán, Jorge, Mujawimana, Rachel Juliet, Ochoa Pacheco, Ania, Sariego Frómeta, Sandra, Tamayo González, Karel   +6 more
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Potential of Traditional Knowledge of Plants in the Management of Arthropods in Livestock Industry with Focus on (Acari) Ticks

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
Antitick plants and related ethnoknowledge/ethnopractices with potential for integrated tick control and management strategies to improve livestock production are reviewed. About 231 plants reviewed showed a variety of bioactive properties, namely, being toxic, repellent, antifeedant, and antiovipositant and ability to immobilize target tick species ...
Wycliffe Wanzala, José L. Rios
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The Politics of Natural Knowing: Contraceptive Plant Properties in the Caribbean [PDF]

, 2016
This paper considers the eighteenth-century ‘voyages of discovery’ to the Americas within the framework of colonial history and the development of modern scientific practice and method.
O’Donnell, Rachel
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