Anti-Sickling and Antibacterial Activities of Extracts from a Congolese Diplopod (Tachypodoiulus sp., Arthropoda)
Abstract:Zoo-pharmacognosy is a mean by which animal self-heal by using of plants and invertebrates. Because of their phylogenetic closeness and common neural pathways of chemosensory perception, humans and great apes, when displaying symptoms of illness learn to select some biological resources as medicine: e.g. diplopods secretions is used by great apes to heal against various skin bacterial infectious diseases which are also recurrent pathologies of the SCD. The present study evaluated the antisickling and antimicro… Show more
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