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Uso de animais como zooterápicos: uma questão bioética

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
Resumo Aborda questões éticas no uso de animais como zooterápicos, que, embora documentado há séculos para múltiplas culturas e resistente ao processo de desenvolvimento urbano e tecnológico, congrega uma pluralidade de agentes morais e vulneráveis ...
Marta Luciane Fischer, Maria Fernanda Turbay Palodeto, Erica Costa dos Santos   +2 more
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Barcoding and traditional health practitioner perspectives are informative to monitor and conserve frogs and reptiles traded for traditional medicine in urban South Africa

Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 25, Issue 2, February 2025.
Abstract Previous literature suggests that Indigenous cultural practices, specifically traditional medicine, are commonplace among urban communities contrary to the general conception that such practices are restricted to rural societies. We reviewed previous literature for records of herptiles (frog and reptile species) sold by traditional health ...
Fortunate M. Phaka, Edward C. Netherlands, Maarten Van Steenberge, Erik Verheyen, Gontran Sonet, Jean Hugé, Louis H. du Preez, Maarten P. M. Vanhove   +7 more
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Natural Products from Ethnodirected Studies: Revisiting the Ethnobiology of the Zombie Poison

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
Wade Davis′s study of Haitian “zombification” in the 1980s was a landmark in ethnobiological research. His research was an attempt to trace the origins of reports of “undead” Haitians, focusing on the preparation of the zombification poison. Starting with this influential ethnopharmacological research, this study examines advances in the pharmacology ...
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Joabe Gomes Melo, Maria Franco Medeiros, Irwin Rose Menezes, Geraldo Jorge Moura, Ana Carla Asfora El-Deir, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Thiago Antonio de Sousa Araújo, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Rafael Ricardo Silva, Alyson Luiz Almeida, Cecília de Fátima Castelo Almeida, Ana H. Ladio   +13 more
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Nutritional, Antibacterial and Thrombolytic Prospects of Freshwater Paludomas conica Protein Hydrolysate and Its Anti‐Inflammatory Potential in LPS‐Induced RAW 264.7 Macrophage Cells

Food Science &Nutrition, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2025.
Nutritional and biological potential of a freshwater mollusk, Paludomas conica, is revealed in this research. Protein hydrolysate of the mollusk has been used as an experimental sample. Proximate nutritional, mineral, and heavy metal contents, as well as prevalently anti‐inflammatory effects in LPS‐induced RAW 264.7 macrophage cells, were enumerated in
Tanvir Ahmed Siddique, Khalid Juhani Rafi, Sumaiya Akter, Farhana Yesmin Bithy, Rasheda Aktar, Asif Nadim Khan, Mumtahina Majid, Farjana Sultana, Srabonti Saha, A. M. Abu Ahmed, Atiar Rahman   +10 more
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Animal-based medicines: biological prospection and the sustainable use of zootherapeutic resources

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2005
Animals have been used as medicinal resources for the treatment and relieve of a myriad of illnesses and diseases in practically every human culture. Although considered by many as superstition, the pertinence of traditional medicine based on animals ...
Eraldo M. Costa-Neto
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Ethnozoological Study of Animals and Animal Products Used as Traditional Medicine by Indigenous Community of the Dangur District in Metekel Zone, Western Ethiopia

International Journal of Zoology, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
In Ethiopia, numerous ethnic groups rely on traditional medicine for their primary health care needs. Nonetheless, indigenous ethnozoological medicinal practices are being overlooked and are progressively disappearing due to inadequate documentation, as they are transmitted from one generation to the next via oral tradition.
Bekele Bewuket Kitaro, Mosissa Geleta Erena, Lipi Buch   +2 more
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Ichthyofauna Used in Traditional Medicine in Brazil

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
Fish represent the group of vertebrates with the largest number of species and the largest geographic distribution; they are also used in different ways by modern civilizations. The goal of this study was to compile the current knowledge on the use of ichthyofauna in zootherapeutic practices in Brazil, including ecological and conservational commentary
Ana Carla Asfora El-Deir, Carolina Alves Collier, Miguel Santana de Almeida Neto, Karina Maria de Souza Silva, Iamara da Silva Policarpo, Thiago Antonio S. Araújo, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque, Geraldo Jorge Barbosa de Moura, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros   +9 more
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The mollusks in zootherapy: traditional medicine and clinical-pharmacological importance [PDF]

Biotemas, 2006
The use of animals as sources of medicines is a cross-cultural phenomenon that is historically ancient and geographically widespread. This article reviews the use of mollusks in traditional medicine and discusses the clinical and pharmacological ...
Eraldo Medeiros Costa Neto
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Zootherapeutics utilized by residents of the community Poço Dantas, Crato-CE, Brazil

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2009
Background Animals have been used as a source of medicine in Brazil since ancient times, and have played a significant role in healing practices. Specifically in Northeast Brazil, zootherapy is a very common practice, and together with medicinal plants ...
Almeida Waltécio O, Ribeiro Samuel C, Brito Samuel V, Ferreira Felipe S, Alves Rômulo RN   +4 more
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Nineteenth century zootherapy in Benedictine monasteries of Brazil [PDF]

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Research on the past use of animals in medicine, particularly in Brazil, is still scarce. This work aimed to perform a dialogical analysis of information retrieved from historical documents composed in the nineteenth century about the therapeutic use of ...
MARIA F.T. MEDEIROS, RÔMULO R.N. ALVES
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