Cardioprotective Effects of Kalanchoe pinnata Aqueous and Ethanolic Extracts in Wistar Rat

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Kalanchoe laciniata and Bryophyllum pinnatum: an updated review about ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology

• July 2019
• Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia 29(4):529-558

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• 10.1016/j.bjp.2019.01.012

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• CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

• Júlia M. Fernandes
• Lorena M. Cunha
• Eduardo Pereira Azevedo
• Silvana M. Zucolotto

Abstract and figures

The species Kalanchoe laciniata (L.) DC. and Bryophyllum pinnatum (Lam) Pers. are native from Brazil and Madagascar, respectively. Both belonging to the Crassulaceae family and being widely used by population as a natural anti-inflammatory agent. These species have similar leaf morphology and for this reason, they are known by the same popular name as “ saião ” or “ coirama ”. Several studies have been published involving different parts and preparations of these species. Therefore, this review aims to provide an update overview about the traditional uses, chemical constitution, pharmacology and toxicology of K. laciniata and B. pinnatum species. An extensive literature review was conducted in different scientific databases. Various chemical constituents have been identified in extracts from different parts of K. laciniata and B. pinnatum , being flavonoids the major compounds. They have been traditionally used to treat inflammation, microbial infection, pain, respiratory diseases, gastritis, ulcers, diabetes and cancer tumors. Non-clinical in vitro assays evaluated mainly the antimicrobial and antioxidant activities, while in vivo assays evaluated the leishmanicide, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory activities. Regarding toxicity, few studies have been conducted for the two species. The information reported in this work might contribute to the recognition of the importance of K. laciniata and B. pinnatum species, as well as to direct further studies

Effect of Antigonon leptopus Leaf Extract on Seed Germination and Seedling Growth of Trigonella foenum graecum

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337035237_Effect_of_Antigonon_leptopus_Leaf_Extract_on_Seed_Germination_and_Seedling_Growth_of_Trigonella_foenum_graecum

Extraction and isolation of the active ingredients of dandelion and its antifungal activity against Candida albicans

https://www.spandidos-publications.com/10.3892/mmr.2019.10797/abstract

Indigenous knowledge and antimicrobial properties of plants used in ethnoveterinary medicine

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332853882_Indigenous_knowledge_and_antimicrobial_properties_of_plants_used_in_ethnoveterinary_medicine

Value Added Products, Chemical Constituents and Medicinal Uses of Celery (Apium graveolens L.) -A Review

Celery (Apium graveolens L.) is an annual or perennial plant that is widespread in distribution and belongs to the family Apiaceae or Umbelliferae. This plant has long been used for the treatment of various illnesses due to excellent therapeutic potentials and as flavoring agent in several food articles owing to high nutritional value. The genus Apium is known to contain about 20 well-known species of Apiaceae family and its several varieties are found native to Eurasia and are mainly grown in coastal regions. Celery requires relatively high level of humidity and comparatively low level of temperature. Therefore, maximum yield is obtained in cool weather of temperate regions. The aggregated world production of seed oil of celery is estimated to be 51 tons while only India produces 25 tons among all and rest of the contribution is made by United Kingdom, Egypt, France, United States of America and China. Different parts of celery contain fatty acids, volatile essential oils, vitamins and minerals such as potassium, magnesium and calcium along with chlorophyll, silica, β-carotene, fibers, sodium and folic acid. Various post-harvest methodologies and treatment processes for preservation of celery are discussed in detail in this review. Different parts of this plant are used for preparation of medicinal formulations in traditional systems of medicines due to their anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-virus, anti-cancer, anti-spasmodic, gastro-intestinal and anti-oxidant potentials.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336825102_Value_Added_Products_Chemical_Constituents_and_Medicinal_Uses_of_Celery_Apium_graveolens_L_-A_Review

Valuing Caribbean Biodiversity Knowledge

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336793151_Valuing_Caribbean_Biodiversity_Knowledge/figures

UCBS: Open Level Faculty Position – Environmental Ethics

Open Level Faculty Position – Environmental Ethics

The Environmental Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant, Associate, or

Full Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2020. The Program is looking for individuals with particular emphasis in the area of Environmental Ethics. The Program seeks candidates with backgrounds in philosophy or a related field in the social sciences or humanities. For this position, we define “ethics” broadly to include any of the three traditional areas of inquiry in this field —meta-, normative, or applied ethics. The Program is particularly interested in scholars who have both theoretical and applied interests, and whose work crosses disciplinary, methodological, cultural, or geographic boundaries. Possible focus areas include climate change, conservation, food and agriculture, risk and vulnerability, the role of science in society, decision-making, social inequality, law, and politics. Established in 1970, the Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara is one of the oldest and largest programs of its kind, with more than 1,000 current majors and over 7,000 alumni. The program has a longstanding commitment to interdisciplinary research and teaching, and a

balance among the biophysical sciences, social sciences, humanities, and applied professions. UC Santa Barbara is a Hispanic Serving Institution, and more than 40 percent of our undergraduates are first-generation college students. For more information, please see http://www.es.ucsb.edu/ Responsibilities of faculty members generally include a research program of the highest quality, teaching at undergraduate and/or graduate levels, recruitment, supervision, and mentorship of graduate students, and participation in university service and professional activities. At a minimum, all applicants must have completed all requirements for a PhD (or equivalent) except the dissertation at the time of application. A PhD in Environmental Ethics or a related field is

required by anticipated appointment start date. Additionally, Associate/Full rank candidates should have research experience in academia or industry after receipt of PhD. A demonstrated record of excellence in research, and a record of (or potential for) excellent teaching are desired. We are especially interested in candidates who show a potential for cross-campus collaboration, and who can contribute to the diversity of our university community. Successful candidates will have a record of collaborative research, and will be able to participate in an interdisciplinary

environment within the Environmental Studies Program and Division. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service as appropriate to the position.

Applications should be submitted electronically, and must include:

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  recommendation on their behalf via UC Recruit
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information for 3 references.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values at UC Santa Barbara. Our excellence can only be fully realized by faculty, students, and staff who share our commitment to these values. The Program strongly encourages all applicants to submit an optional Statement of Contributions to Diversity addressing past and/or potential contributions to diversity through research, teaching, and service.

Applications received by November 15, 2019 will be given priority consideration, but the position will remain open until filled.

To apply please visit https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF01567
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Ticks of Trinidad and Tobago - an Overview

https://www.elsevier.com/books/ticks-of-trinidad-and-tobago-an-overview/basu/978-0-12-809744-1

A review on medicinal plant of Apium graveolens

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280562618_A_review_on_medicinal_plant_of_Apium_graveolens

INVESTIGATIONS ON THE ANTIPYRETIC AND ANTIEMETIC ACTIVITIES OF AQUEOUS EXTRACT OF LUPINUS ARBOREUS LEAVES

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336055674_INVESTIGATIONS_ON_THE_ANTIPYRETIC_AND_ANTIEMETIC_ACTIVITIES_OF_AQUEOUS_EXTRACT_OF_LUPINUS_ARBOREUS_LEAVES/references

Ethnomedicines and Health Management in Kenya: Which Way Forward?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335773402_Ethnomedicines_and_Health_Management_in_Kenya_Which_Way_Forward?isFromSharing=1

Correspondence: Kalanchoe pinnata aqueous extract safety and potential cardioprotective effects in isoprenaline treated rats

http://www.phytopharmajournal.com/Vol7_Issue5_01.pdf

Greater Accra’s new urban extension at Ningo-Prampram: urban promise or urban peril?

Articles

Richard Grant,Martin Oteng-Ababio &Jessy Sivilien

Published online: 18 Sep 2019

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ABSTRACT

New private property investments in Africa’s cities are on the rise, often manifested as comprehensively planned urban extensions. Greater Accra has several competing city projects under development, potentially launching new city-making trajectories and competitive struggles among rival projects. This article assesses the rationale and early evolution of Ghana’s largest, most ambitious project the Ningo-Prampram Urban Extension, aiming to accommodate 1.5 million people. Supported by UN-Habitat, international consultants, government, and local Chiefs, the constellation of actors supports a public-private partnership to engage in urban entrepreneurialism, underpinned by sustainable development features and promising increased global connectivity. However, this project raises socio-spatial contradictions with regard to how affordable housing, an airport city and other developments can augment Accra’s development. Global economy articulation as well as intra-city connectivity is promised but at its peril it amplifies sprawl so that the Accra City Region evolves into a string of beads along the Trans-West African Highway.

KEYWORDS: Urban extension, Greater Accra, affordable housing, urban planning

Medicinal Plants of South Asia 1st Edition Novel Sources for Drug Discovery

https://www.elsevier.com/books/medicinal-plants-of-south-asia/hanif/978-0-08-102659-5

The Intersection of Race and Gender in Leadership of Co-operatives: of Whom, by Whom, and for Whom?

https://ukscs.coop/sites/default/files/S03-Sengupta-145-Abstract.pdf

Abstract

This paper describes the intersection of class, gender and race in the leadership of cooperatives in North America. Movement of labour across North American borders changes the membership of cooperatives as well as the leadership and formation of cooperatives. The socio-economic shifts that affect cooperatives are also accompanied by marginalization of particular populations, including Indigenous communities and racial minorities. International cooperative principles remain ideals to aspire to rather than a reality in practice. Although women and racial minorities have made some advances in equity in cooperatives, racialized women in particular are not represented in leadership positions in cooperatives in proportion to membership in the broader population. On an optimistic note, cooperatives continue to be more egalitarian organizations than other types of organizations and therefore have the potential for leading as positive role models, addressing the intersection of gender and race for other organizations to follow. Women leading cooperatives will form different types of cooperatives than men leading cooperatives in the same industry. Additionally women of colour leading cooperatives will form different types of organizations than traditional cooperatives, providing for enriched plurality of organizational forms required for addressing complex socio-economic problems.

Ethnoveterinary knowledge of farmers in bilingual regions of Switzerland – is there potential to extend veterinary options to reduce antimicrobial use?

J Ethnopharmacol. 2019 Aug 26;246:112184. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2019.112184. [Epub ahead of print]

Mertenat D1, Cero MD2, Vogl CR3, Ivemeyer S4, Meier B5, Maeschli A6, Hamburger M7, Walkenhorst M8.

Author information

1

Pharmaceutical Biology, Pharmacenter, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

2

University of Zurich, Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Zürich, Switzerland.

3

Division of Organic Farming, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria.

4

Farm Animal Behaviour and Husbandry Section, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany.

5

Unit of Phytopharmacy and Natural Product Research, Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland.

6

Department of Livestock Science, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Ackerstrasse 113, Postfach, CH-5070, Frick, Switzerland.

7

Pharmaceutical Biology, Pharmacenter, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: matthias.hamburger@unibas.ch.

8

Department of Livestock Science, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Ackerstrasse 113, Postfach, CH-5070, Frick, Switzerland. Electronic address: michael.walkenhorst@fibl.org.

Abstract

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE:

In the pre-antibiotic era, a broad spectrum of medicinal plants was used to treat livestock. This knowledge was neglected in European veterinary medicine for decades but kept alive by farmers. Emergence of multidrug resistant bacterial strains requires a severely restricted use of antibiotics in veterinary medicine. We conducted a survey on the ethnoveterinary knowledge of farmers in the bilingual (French and German speaking) Western region of Switzerland, namely the cantons of Fribourg, Neuchâtel and Jura, and in the French speaking part of the canton of Bern.

AIM OF THE STUDY:

To find out whether differences exist in plants used by farmers in French speaking and bilingual regions of Switzerland as compared to our earlier studies conducted in Switzerland. Additional focus was on plants that are used in diseases which commonly are treated with antimicrobials, on plants used in skin afflictions, and on plants used in animal species such as horses, for which the range of veterinary medicinal products is limited.

MATERIAL AND METHODS:

We conducted in 2015 semistructured interviews with 62 dialog partners, mainly cattle keeping farmers but also 18 horse keeping farmers. Of these, 41 were native French (FNS) and 21 native German speakers (GNS). Detailed information about homemade herbal remedies (plant species, plant part, manufacturing process) and the corresponding use reports (target animal species, category of use, route of administration, dosage, source of knowledge, frequency of use, last time of use and farmers satisfaction) were collected.

RESULTS:

A total of 345 homemade remedies were reported, of which 240 contained only one plant species (Homemade Single Species Herbal Remedy Reports; HSHR). A total of 289 use reports (UR) were mentioned for the 240 HSHR, and they comprised 77 plant species belonging to 41 botanical families. Of these, 35 plant species were solely reported from FNS, 20 from GNS, and 22 from both. Taking into account earlier ethnoveterinary studies conducted in Switzerland only 10 (FNS) and 6 (GNS) plant species connected with 7% of FNS and GNS UR respectively were "unique" to the respective language group. The majority of the UR (219) was for treatment of cattle, while 38 UR were intended to treat horses. The most UR were for treatment of gastrointestinal and skin diseases. The most frequently mentioned plants were Linum usitatissimum L., Coffea L., Matricaria chamomilla L., Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze, and Quercus robur L. for gastrointestinal diseases, and Calendula officinalis L., Hypericum perforatum L. and Sanicula europaea L. for skin afflictions.

CONCLUSION:

No clear differences were found between the medicinal plants used by French native speakers and German native speakers. Several of the reported plants seem to be justified to widen the spectrum of veterinary therapeutic options in gastrointestinal and dermatological disorders in cattle and horses, and to reduce, at least to a certain degree, the need for antibiotic treatments. Our findings may help to strengthen the role of medicinal plants in veterinary research and practice, and to consider them as a further measure in official strategies for lowering the use of antibiotics.

Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier B.V.

KEYWORDS:

Antimicrobial; Ethnoveterinary medicine; French speaking swiss regions (Fribourg; Jura; Jura bernois); Livestock diseases; Medicinal plants; Neuchâtel

PMID:

 

31465817

 

DOI:

 

10.1016/j.jep.2019.112184

Apium Plants: Beyond Simple Food and Phytopharmacological Applications

Apium plants belong to the Apiaceae family and are included among plants that have been in use in traditional medicine for thousands of years worldwide, including in the Mediterranean, as well as the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Africa. Some highlighted medical benefits include prevention of coronary and vascular diseases. Their phytochemical constituents consist of bergapten, Appl. Sci. 2019, 9, 3547 2 of 39 induction. The present review summarizes data on ecology, botany, cultivation, habitat, medicinal use, phytochemical composition, preclinical and clinical pharmacological efficacy of Apium plants and provides future direction on how to take full advantage of Apium plants for the optimal benefit to mankind.

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A SCREENING FOR ANTIOXIDANT SPECIES WITH PHOTO-PROTECTOR ACTIVITIES AT THE ZONGO VALLEY (BOLIVIA)

Once plantas fueron colectadas en el Valle de Zongo para evaluar sus propiedades antioxidantes y fotoprotectoras. En esta publicación presentamos una fuerte correlación entre una alta actividad antioxidantes y una fuerte absorción UV-A y/o UV-B. Las especies más activas, evaluadas a 10µg/ml con el ensayo DPPH, fueron Fuchsia boliviana (hojas), Baccharis pentlandii (flores), Rubus floribundus (frutas), Fuchsia boliviana (flores y frutas) y Brachyotum microdon (flores). Todas las especies mencionadas poseen importantes absorciones UV- B y/o UV- A. Esta técnica DPPH/UV puede ser usada para realizar un cernido preliminar de muestras vegetales y seleccionar aquellas con valores de DPPH superiores a 83% y fuertes absorciones UV-A y/o UV-B. Las muestras seleccionadas, luego pueden ser evaluadas con otro ensayo in vitro más costoso (TEAC, ABTS o FRAP) para finalmente confirmar sus actividades con el ensayo in vivo. A nuestro conocimiento, ésta es la primera vez que las actividades antioxidantes de Distichia muscoides, Souroubea fragilis, Brachyotum microdon, Monnina bridgesii, Baccharis pentlandii, Thibaudia crenulata, Siphocampylus tupaeformis, Cobaea scandens, Fuchsia boliviana y Rubus floribundus son reportadas. Adicionalmente, ésta es la primera vez que se presenta una publicación de Siphocampylus tupaeformis y Thibaudia crenulata, así como el estudio de sus propiedades fotoprotectoras y antioxidantes.

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Application of Breadfruit in food products

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