Medicinal plants in the diet of woolly spider monkeys ( Brachyteles arachnoides , E. Geoffroy, 1806) – a bio-rational for the search of new medicines for human use?

Petroni, Liége Mariel; Huffman, Michael A.; Rodrigues, Eliana

doi:10.1016/j.bjp.2016.09.002

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“…Furthermore, it has been noticed that some plants are used by animals and humans for the same therapeutic purposes [ 20 ]. Some studies compare ethnomedicine/ethnopharmacology and zoopharmacology in the same project [ 41 ]. These documented convergencies suggesting that few cases are due to direct observation of sick animal behavior by humans [ 42 ].…”

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Zoopharmacology: A Way to Discover New Cancer Treatments

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Zoopharmacognosy is the multidisciplinary approach of the self-medication behavior of many kinds of animals. Recent studies showed the presence of antitumoral secondary metabolites in some of the plants employed by animals and their use for the same therapeutic purposes in humans. Other related and sometimes confused term is Zootherapy, which consists on the employment of animal parts and/or their by-products such as toxins, venoms, etc., to treat different human ailments. Therefore, the aim of this work is to provide a brief insight for the use of Zoopharmacology (comprising Zoopharmacognosy and Zootherapy) as new paths to discover drugs studying animal behavior and/or using compounds derived from animals. This work is focused on the approaches related to cancer, in order to propose a new promising line of research to overcome multidrug resistance (MDR). This novel subject will encourage the use of new alternative prospective ways to find new medicines.

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“…Another similar study also showed that 13 species of a total of 53 plants present in the diet of woolly spider monkeys ( Brachyteles arachnoides ) population are included in the medicinal repertoire of people living around the same natural area [ 41 ].…”

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“…No specifics were given with regard to the pathogen. A recent study on woolly spider monkeys ( Brachyteles arachnoides ) revealed that the diet of this primate includes plant species with demonstrated medicinal properties and that these were used in a medicinal way by humans in areas surrounding the park [ 63 ].…”

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How mammals stay healthy in nature: the evolution of behaviours to avoid parasites and pathogens

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2018

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Mammals live and thrive in environments presenting ongoing threats from parasites in the form of biting flies, ticks and intestinal worms and from pathogens as wound contaminants and agents of infectious disease. Several strategies have evolved that enable animals to deal with parasites and pathogens, including eliminating away from the sleeping–resting areas, use of an array of grooming techniques, use of saliva in licking, and consuming medicinal plant-based compounds. These strategies all are species-specific and reflect the particular environment that the animal inhabits.This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue ‘Evolution of pathogen and parasite avoidance behaviours’.

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“…Self-medication research focuses on understanding how animals respond to illness and how these behaviors can be transmitted across generations (Huffman 1997). It has also been argued to be a bio-rational for the exploration and exploitation of novel secondary plant compounds and new insights into how they can be used for the management of health in humans and livestock (Huffman et al 1998;Krief et al 2005;Petroni et al 2016). At the proximate level, self-medication may be driven by the necessity to maintain physiological homeostasis to stay in relatively good condition (Foitova et al 2009;Forbey et al 2009).…”

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“…Interestingly, of the species used by these people to treat symptoms of malaria, 89% are also eaten as food (Etkin and Ross 1983). Many food items eaten by primates and other mammals have also been shown to contain a variety of secondary metabolites with medicinal properties (roughly 15-25% of any population's food plant species list), suggesting that animals may benefit from the periodic ingestion, in small amounts of these plants (sifaka Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi, Carrai et al 2003; gorillas Gorilla gorilla and G. beringei, Cousins and Huffman 2002;chimpanzees Pan troglodytes, Huffman 1997, 2003; Japanese macaques Macaca fuscata, Huffman and MacIntosh 2012;various ungulate species, Mukherjee et al 2011; lemurs Eulemur fulvus, Negre et al 2006; wooly spider monkeys Brachyteles arachnoides, Petroni et al 2016). The secondary compound rich content of some foods in the diet may play a significant role in the maintenance of health.…”

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Medicinal Properties in the Diet of Tibetan Macaques at Mt. Huangshan: A Case for Self-Medication

Huffman

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2019

The Behavioral Ecology of the Tibetan Macaque

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Life history strategies include growth, maintenance, and reproduction (Gadgil and Bossert 1970), all of which are dependent upon a proper diet for metabolic functions. Animal feeding strategies are based on finding and consuming a balance of the most essential nutritional elements, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, trace elements, and vitamins, while at the same time avoiding the negative impacts of secondary metabolites in plants (Lambert 2011; Simpson et al. 2004). These secondary metabolites protect plants from predation by an array of insect and vertebrate herbivores that prey upon them by reducing palatability and digestibility (Freeland and Janzen 1974; Glander 1982; Rosenthal and Berenbaum 1992). Nonetheless, this does not always inhibit animals from ingesting such plants in tolerable amounts for purposes other than nutrition. The idea that animals may ingest plants for their medicinal value was first suggested by Janzen (1978), based on a variety of anecdotal reports from the wild. The study of primate self-medication then began in earnest as a scientific discipline in the mid-to-late 1980s with observations of chimpanzees in the wild (see Huffman 2015). Nonetheless, it is widely documented that humans have traditionally seen animals as a source of knowledge about the use of plants for their medicinal value

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Medicinal plants in the diet of woolly spider monkeys ( Brachyteles arachnoides , E. Geoffroy, 1806) – a bio-rational for the search of new medicines for human use?

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Zoopharmacology: A Way to Discover New Cancer Treatments

Zoopharmacology: A Way to Discover New Cancer Treatments

How mammals stay healthy in nature: the evolution of behaviours to avoid parasites and pathogens

Medicinal Properties in the Diet of Tibetan Macaques at Mt. Huangshan: A Case for Self-Medication

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