Medical Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology in Latin America

“Medical Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology in Latin America” is an annual special issue published in “Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine.” The current issue is the 2013 issue, which is now closed for submissions.

Medical Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology in Latin America 2013

• Evaluations of the Antimicrobial Activities and Chemical Compositions of Body Fat from the Amphibians Leptodactylus macrosternum Miranda-Ribeiro (1926) and Leptodactylus vastus Adolf Lutz (1930) in Northeastern Brazil, Mario Eduardo Santos Cabral, Diógenes de Queiroz Dias, Débora Lima Sales, Olga Paiva Oliveira, Diego Alves Teles, João Antonio de Araujo Filho, José Guilherme Gonçalves de Sousa, Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho, José Galberto Martins da Costa, Marta Regina Kerntopf, Rômulo Romeu da Nóbrega Alves, and Waltécio de Oliveira Almeida
  Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 913671, 7 pages
• Efficacy of Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng in a Murine Model of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Skin Abscesses, Francisco Fábio Martins de Oliveira, Alba Fabiola Torres, Thially Braga Gonçalves, Gilvandete Maria Pinheiro Santiago, Cibele Barreto Mano de Carvalho, Milena Braga Aguiar, Lilia Maria Carneiro Camara, Silvia Helena Rabenhorst, Alice Maria Costa Martins, José Telmo Valença Junior, and Aparecida Tiemi Nagao-Dias
  Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 291592, 9 pages

Medical Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology in Latin America 2012

• Medical Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology in Latin America, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Edwin L. Cooper, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, and Ana H. Ladio
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 379160, 2 pages
• Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal Plants of the Pantanal Region (Mato Grosso, Brazil), Isanete Geraldini Costa Bieski, Fabrício Rios Santos, Rafael Melo de Oliveira, Mariano Martinez Espinosa, Miramy Macedo, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, and Domingos Tabajara de Oliveira Martins
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 272749, 36 pages
• Ichthyofauna Used in Traditional Medicine in Brazil, Ana Carla Asfora El-Deir, Carolina Alves Collier, Miguel Santana de Almeida Neto, Karina Maria de Souza Silva, Iamara da Silva Policarpo, Thiago Antonio S. Araújo, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque, and Geraldo Jorge Barbosa de Moura
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 474716, 16 pages
• Plant Stem Bark Extractivism in the Northeast Semiarid Region of Brazil: A New Aport to Utilitarian Redundancy Model, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Clarissa Fernanda Queiroz Siqueira, and Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 543207, 11 pages
• Honey-Based Mixtures Used in Home Medicine by Nonindigenous Population of Misiones, Argentina, Monika Kujawska, Fernando Zamudio, and Norma I. Hilgert
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 579350, 15 pages
• The Trade in Medicinal Animals in Northeastern Brazil, Felipe Silva Ferreira, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho, Waltécio de Oliveira Almeida, and Rômulo Romeu da Nóbrega Alves
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 126938, 20 pages
• The Usefulness of Edible and Medicinal Fabaceae in Argentine and Chilean Patagonia: Environmental Availability and Other Sources of Supply, Soledad Molares and Ana Ladio
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 901918, 12 pages
• Bioactivity Evaluation of Plant Extracts Used in Indigenous Medicine against the Snail, Biomphalaria glabrata, and the Larvae of Aedes aegypti, Edilson Alves dos Santos, Cenira M. de Carvalho, Ana L. S. Costa, Adilva S. Conceição, Flávia de B. Prado Moura, and Antônio Euzébio Goulart Santana
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 846583, 9 pages
• Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals in a Market of Bolivian Immigrants in Buenos Aires (Argentina), María Lelia Pochettino, Jeremías P. Puentes, Fernando Buet Costantino, Patricia M. Arenas, Emilio A. Ulibarri, and Julio A. Hurrell
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 320193, 14 pages
• Distribution and Transmission of Medicinal Plant Knowledge in the Andean Highlands: A Case Study from Peru and Bolivia, Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel and Ina Vandebroek
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 959285, 18 pages
• Exploring the Links between Ethnobotany, Local Therapeutic Practices, and Protected Areas in Santa Catarina Coastline, Brazil, Sofia Zank and Natalia Hanazaki
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 563570, 15 pages
• The Use of Medicinal Plants by Migrant People: Adaptation, Maintenance, and Replacement, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Nélson Leal Alencar, Ina Vandebroek, Andrea Pieroni, Natalia Hanazaki, and Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 807452, 11 pages
• Intracultural Variation in the Knowledge of Medicinal Plants in an Urban-Rural Community in the Atlantic Forest from Northeastern Brazil, Cecília de Fátima Castelo Branco Rangel de Almeida, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Rafael Ricardo Vasconcelos Silva, Joabe Gomes de Melo, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros, Thiago Antonio de Sousa Araújo, Alyson Luiz Santos de Almeida, Elba Lúcia Cavalcanti de Amorim, Rômulo Romeu da Nóbrega Alves, and Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 679373, 15 pages
• Mapuche Herbal Medicine Inhibits Blood Platelet Aggregation, Susan Skanderup Falkenberg, Inge Tarnow, Alfonso Guzman, Per Mølgaard, and Henrik Toft Simonsen
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 647620, 9 pages
• Inhibitory Effect of Helicteres gardneriana Ethanol Extract on Acute Inflammation, Juliana Oliveira de Melo, Laura Lícia Milani de Arruda, Silmara Baroni, Maria da Conceição Torrado Truiti, Silvana Martins Caparroz-Assef, Roberto Kenji Nakamura Cuman, and Ciomar Aparecida Bersani-Amado
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 141947, 5 pages
• Natural Products from Ethnodirected Studies: Revisiting the Ethnobiology of the Zombie Poison, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Joabe Gomes Melo, Maria Franco Medeiros, Irwin Rose Menezes, Geraldo Jorge Moura, Ana Carla Asfora El-Deir, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Thiago Antonio de Sousa Araújo, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Rafael Ricardo Silva, Alyson Luiz Almeida, and Cecília de Fátima Castelo Almeida
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 202508, 19 pages
• Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology of Lepidium meyenii (Maca), a Plant from the Peruvian Highlands, Gustavo F. Gonzales
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 193496, 10 pages
• The First Report on the Medicinal Use of Fossils in Latin America, Geraldo Jorge Barbosa Moura and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 691717, 5 pages
• Levels of Tannins and Flavonoids in Medicinal Plants: Evaluating Bioprospecting Strategies, Clarissa Fernanda de Queiroz Siqueira, Daniela Lyra Vasconcelos Cabral, Tadeu José da Silva Peixoto Sobrinho, Elba Lúcia Cavalcanti de Amorim, Joabe Gomes de Melo, Thiago Antônio de Sousa Araújo, and Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 434782, 7 pages
• Comparison of Effects of the Ethanolic Extracts of Brazilian Propolis on Human Leukemic Cells As Assessed with the MTT Assay, Gilberto C. Franchi Jr., Cleber S. Moraes, Viviane C. Toreti, Andreas Daugsch, Alexandre E. Nowill, and Yong K. Park
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 918956, 6 pages
• Ethnobotany in Intermedical Spaces: The Case of the Fulni-ô Indians (Northeastern Brazil), Gustavo Taboada Soldati and Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 648469, 13 pages
• A New Application for the Optimal Foraging Theory: The Extraction of Medicinal Plants, Gustavo Taboada Soldati and Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 364564, 10 pages
• Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Activity of the Decoction of Tropidurus hispidus (Spix, 1825) and Tropidurus semitaeniatus (Spix, 1825) Used by the Traditional Medicine, Israel J. M. Santos, Edinardo F. F. Matias, Karla K. A. Santos, Maria F. B. M. Braga, Jacqueline C. Andrade, Teógenes M. Souza, Francisco A. V. Santos, Ana Carla A. Sousa, José G. M. Costa, Irwin R. A. Menezes, Rômulo R. N. Alves, Waltecio O. Almeida, and Henrique D. M. Coutinho
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 747969, 6 pages