December 2018

Medicinal plant use and conservation practices by communities in the Togo Plateau Forest Reserve, Ghana

The use of plants for medicine has constituted an important aspect of primary healthcare delivery system of people throughout the world for many centuries. Nonetheless, information on medicinal plants and their conservation are still lacking in some areas, including the Togo Plateau Forest Reserve in Ghana. This paper investigates the ethnobotany of the Togo Plateau Forest Reserve, Ghana, to document the traditional...

Author(s): Gilchrist K. Faith Dogor, Ruby A. Nyarko, Alexander K. Anning and Alfred  Oteng-Yeboah

December 2018

Evaluation of cytotoxic and antitumor activity of perillaldehyde 1,2-epoxide

The study aimed to evaluate cytotoxicity and antitumor activity of perillaldehyde 1,2-epoxide (PE), a p-menthane monoterpene derivative against four human tumor cell lines ovarian cancer (OVCAR-8), colon carcinoma (HCT-116), glioblastoma (SF-295) and leukemia (HL-60) using the colorimetric MTT assay. PE showed a high degree of inhibition of cell proliferation (GI = 95.66 to 99.71%) and IC50 16.14 μM (± 1.86),...

Author(s): Luciana Nalone Andrade, Patrícia Severino, Ricardo Guimarães Amaral, Grace Anne Azevedo Dória, Andressa da Silva, Melina Alves, Ricardo Luiz Cavalcante Albuquerque Júnior, Maria Claudia Santos Luciano, Cláudia Ó Pessoa, Adriana Andrade Carvalho and  Damião Pergentino de Sousa  

December 2018

Diversity and use of wild edible plants by migratory shepherds in the Himachal Pradesh of the Western Himalayas, India

The present study was carried out in Himachal Pradesh of the Western Himalayas, India to obtain information on the wild edible plants used by the migratory shepherds. The shepherds started their migration in July from Chitkul, Rakchham, Batseri, Sangla and Kamru of district Kinnaur (Himachal Pradesh). Questionnaire for the survey, personal field visits and participatory observations were used to collect information...

Author(s): Radha, Sunil Puri and Sanjeev Kumar