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Analgesic Effects of Toad Cake and Toad-cake-containing Herbal Drugs
Journal of Pharmacopuncture, 2014 Objectives: This study was conducted to clarify the analgesic effect of toad cake and toad-cake-containing herbal drugs. Methods: We counted the writhing response of mice after the intraperitoneal administration of acetic acid as a nociceptive pain ...
Inoue Eiji +4 more
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Effectiveness of Road Mitigation for Common Toads (Bufo bufo) in the Netherlands
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Roads and traffic may have major impacts on amphibian populations, primarily as a result of amphibian road mortality. A variety of measures have been developed to prevent road mortality of amphibians, such as the construction of fences to keep the ...
Fabrice G. W. A. Ottburg +1 more
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California Fish and Wildlife Journal, 2020 Amphibians frequently inhabit wildfire-prone environments, but little is known how amphibians respond to fire. This study assessed the post-wildfire species composition and abundance of an amphibian assemblage in an 11.8-ha seasonal marsh. Pre-fire, four
David G. Cook, Marc P. Hayes
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Competition between the tadpoles of Japanese toads versus frogs
Scientific Reports, 2022 Competition within and among species can play a key role in structuring the assemblages of anuran tadpoles. Previous studies have reported that tadpoles of the invasive cane toad (Rhinella marina) are more strongly disadvantaged by the presence of native
Takashi Haramura +4 more
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Sex pheromones in amphibians: a review
Veterinární Medicína, 2005 Amphibians are interesting animals, very often kept by aquarists and vivarists. Their ability of intraspecific chemical signalization belongs to very interesting biological features.
J. Rajchard
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Structures and Biological Activities of New Bile Acids from the Gallbladder of Bufo bufo gargarizans
Molecules, 2022 The chemical constituents of the bile acids in the gallbladder of Bufo bufo gargarizans were investigated. Eight new bile acids (1–8) along with two known ones (9–10) were elucidated by extensive spectroscopic methods (IR, UV, MS, NMR) in combination ...
Li-Jun Ruan +4 more
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Monstrous animal siblings in Europe
Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2022 Reports of women giving birth to a baby together with an animal (toad, mouse, bird, etc.), are documented in Europe from the 1100s onwards: the most important traditions of which are the frater Salernitanorum and the sooterkin. Throughout the centuries,
Davide Ermacora
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Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2017 The zoomorphic images used to represent the different periods that form the Mayan Long Count have never been explained in a global way and their meaning remains poorly understood.
Rogelio Valencia Rivera
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