A Bioactivity Versus Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants from Nigeria, West Africa

Traditional medicinal practices play a key role in health care systems in countries with developing economies. The aim of this survey was to validate the use of traditional medicine within local Nigerian communities. In this review, we examine the ethnobotanical uses of selected plant species from t...

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Autores principales: Lifongo, Lydia L., Simoben, Conrad V., Ntie-Kang, Fidele, Babiaka, Smith B., Judson, Philip N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3956980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24660132
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13659-014-0005-7
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author Lifongo, Lydia L.
Simoben, Conrad V.
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Judson, Philip N.
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description Traditional medicinal practices play a key role in health care systems in countries with developing economies. The aim of this survey was to validate the use of traditional medicine within local Nigerian communities. In this review, we examine the ethnobotanical uses of selected plant species from the Nigerian flora and attempt to correlate the activities of the isolated bioactive principles with known uses of the plant species in African traditional medicine. Thirty-three (33) plant species were identified and about 100 out of the 120 compounds identified with these plants matched with the ethnobotanical uses of the plants.
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spelling pubmed-39569802014-03-21 A Bioactivity Versus Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants from Nigeria, West Africa Lifongo, Lydia L. Simoben, Conrad V. Ntie-Kang, Fidele Babiaka, Smith B. Judson, Philip N. Nat Prod Bioprospect Review Traditional medicinal practices play a key role in health care systems in countries with developing economies. The aim of this survey was to validate the use of traditional medicine within local Nigerian communities. In this review, we examine the ethnobotanical uses of selected plant species from the Nigerian flora and attempt to correlate the activities of the isolated bioactive principles with known uses of the plant species in African traditional medicine. Thirty-three (33) plant species were identified and about 100 out of the 120 compounds identified with these plants matched with the ethnobotanical uses of the plants. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3956980/ /pubmed/24660132 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13659-014-0005-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2014 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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Simoben, Conrad V.
Ntie-Kang, Fidele
Babiaka, Smith B.
Judson, Philip N.
A Bioactivity Versus Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants from Nigeria, West Africa
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title_short A Bioactivity Versus Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants from Nigeria, West Africa
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3956980/
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