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Medicinal use of wild fauna by mestizo communities living near San Guillermo Biosphere Reserve (San Juan, Argentina) [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Wild and domestic animals and their by-products are important ingredients in the preparation of curative, protective and preventive medicines. Despite the medicinal use of animals worldwide, this topic has received less attention than the use
Borghi, Carlos Eduardo, Campos, Claudia Monica, Hernández, Jorge   +2 more
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Knowledge and Use of Traditional Medicinal Animals in the Arba Minch Zuriya District, Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia [PDF]

, 2021
Objective: To collect ethnozoological data in connection with medicinal animals and their products used by the inhabitants of the Arba Minch Zuriya region of Ethiopia and to put on record information on traditional treatments of diseases and disorders ...
Kebebew, Mulugeta, Meyer-Rochow, V.B., Mohamed, Erchafo   +2 more
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The use of zootherapeutics in folk veterinary medicine in the district of Cubati, Paraíba State, Brazil [PDF]

, 2007
Background The present work addresses the use of zootherapy in folk veterinary medicine (ethnoveterinary) by the residents of the municipal district of Cubati, microregion of Seridó, Paraíba State, Brazil. It sought to identify the principal animals used
Raynner RD Barboza, Wedson de MS Souto, José da S Mourão, EM Costa Neto, E Mathias, MD'O Campos, GJ MARTIN, FBP Moura, KK Misra, EM Costa Neto, LN Kakati, T Matekaire, JL Rodriguez, MO Jacob, ADH, BRASIL, JGW Marques, JN Andrade, RRD Barboza, EM Costa Neto, HD Albuquerque, AGC Alves, BRASIL, MT Rodrigues, JA Oliveira, JMC Silva, L Silveira, MAN Sousa, R Dawkins, HFP Araújo, KEC Lima, DJ Fagundes, WAD Anderson, L Duarte, GC Jardim, MB Almeida, IUCN – The World Conservation Union, E Andrei, WR Kelly   +38 more
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Ethnozoological Study of Wild Bird Species Body Parts Supply in Traditional Medicine Markets, Abeokuta, Nigeria [PDF]

, 2022
The paper examined the ethnozoological study of wild bird species' body parts supply of eighty-three traditional medicine marketers in six traditional medicine markets in Abeokuta North and South Local Government Area, Ogun State, Nigeria using snowball ...
Adebayo, O. O., Ampitan, A. A., Oyedeji, M. B.   +2 more
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The use of small animals - mammals, birds, fish in zootherapy [PDF]

Kontakt, 2015
Abstract Humans previously had a significantly greater connection with nature and bred animals primarily for their own benefit. Currently in today's fast-paced society, nature is being replaced by pet ownership. In some situations, people cannot have their own pets or do not have enough resources to take care of a living animal.
Ivana Gardiánová, Pavlína Hejrová
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Man-animal relationships in Central Nepal [PDF]

, 2010
Background Nepal is small in size but rich in bio-cultural diversity. The rugged terrain of the country is home to a number of unique assemblages of fauna, some of which are endemic. Not only faunal resources the country also harbors some
Usha Lohani
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Therapeutic and prophylactic uses of invertebrates in contemporary Spanish ethnoveterinary medicine [PDF]

, 2016
Zootherapeutic practices in ethnoveterinary medicine are important in many socio-cultural environments around the world, particularly in developing countries, and they have recently started to be inventoried and studied in Europe.
Francisco Amich, José Antonio González, José Ramón Vallejo, Salvador Postigo-Mota   +3 more
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Risks to Birds Traded for African Traditional Medicine: A Quantitative Assessment [PDF]

, 2014
Few regional or continent-wide assessments of bird use for traditional medicine have been attempted anywhere in the world. Africa has the highest known diversity of bird species used for this purpose.
A Kemp, AB Cunningham, AC de Kock, Alan C. Kemp, ALS Betlu, Anthony B. Cunningham, AV Hall, B Kizungu, BG Marcot, C Anyinam, C Downs, C Hollis, CG Ding, D Graham-Rowe, DA Soewu, David L. Roberts, DL Ogada, DL Ogada, DL Ogada, DMM Bezerra, DP Jaroli, DR Given, E Lev, EM Costa-Neto, EM Costa-Neto, EM Loeb, G Beninguisse, G Nikolaus, G Wilson, H France, HH El-Kamali, HW Garbutt, IAW Macdonald, IPF Owens, J Chakravorty, J Yu, JA Tobias, JA Vickery, JB Adjakpa, JJ Herholdt, JJ Hobbs, M Cocker, M Cocker, MC Ramos, ME Taylor, MJ Whiting, MM Mahawar, MO Adeola, N Machado, N Mishra, NL Etkin, OA Sodeinde, OB Myers, PO Otieno, R Baskind, R Julliard, R Sankaran, Robin K. Bruyns, RRN Alves, RRN Alves, S Derwent, SHM Butchart, TE Martin, TH Haileselasie, TS Simelane, V Simeonov, Vivienne L. Williams, W Saengkrajang, Y Ntiamoa-Baidu   +68 more
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Cicadidae Periostracum, the Cast‐Off Skin of Cicada, Protects Dopaminergic Neurons in a Model of Parkinson’s Disease

Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by dopaminergic neuronal loss in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNPC) and the striatum. Nuclear receptor‐related 1 protein (Nurr1) is a nuclear hormone receptor implicated in limiting mitochondrial dysfunction, apoptosis, and inflammation in the central nervous system and protecting dopaminergic neurons ...
Hye-Sun Lim, Joong-Sun Kim, Byeong Cheol Moon, Goya Choi, Seung Mok Ryu, Jun Lee, Mary Jasmin Ang, Mijin Jeon, Changjong Moon, Gunhyuk Park, Giovanna Cenini   +10 more
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DNA Barcoding for the Identification and Authentication of Animal Species in Traditional Medicine

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018
Animal‐based traditional medicine not only plays a significant role in therapeutic practices worldwide but also provides a potential compound library for drug discovery. However, persistent hunting and illegal trade markedly threaten numerous medicinal animal species, and increasing demand further provokes the emergence of various adulterants.
Fan Yang, Fei Ding, Hong Chen, Mingqi He, Shixin Zhu, Xin Ma, Li Jiang, Haifeng Li, Yoshiki Mukudai   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source