Background & Aim:  The hot water extract of a mixture of Anogeissus leiocarpus and Prosopis africana is widely used in the northern part of Nigeria for the treatment and management of asthma. Since investigations of its pharmacological activities already justify its use, and the need for standardization of herbal medicine and develop appropriate dosage forms has continued to g...

IN THE TITLE COUMARIN COMPOUND (SYSTEMATIC NAME: 6-butyryl-5-hy-droxy-8,8-dimethyl-4-phenyl-2H,8H-benzo[1,2-b;3,4-b']dipyran-2-one), C(24)H(22)O(5), also known as mammea A/AC cyclo D, the chromene and pyran rings are almost coplanar with a maximum deviation from the mean plane of 0.295 (2) Å. The attached phenyl group is inclined at 53.49 (8)° with respect to the chromene ring. The mol-ecular s...

O presente artigo teve como objetivo compreender a participação do vestuário na construção da identidade negra/africana contemporaneidade. Para tal, utilizamos semiótica discursiva, que foi aplicada um post Facebook de uma mulher negra, no qual ela usava o turbante e falava sobre ele. A análise efetuada nos permitiu uso implica questão identitária, se dá numa oposição à branca/europeia, ocorre ...

BACKGROUND Infectious diseases caused by multiresistant microbial strains are on the increase. Fighting these diseases with natural products may be more efficacious. The aim of this study was to investigate the in vitro antimicrobial activity of methanolic, ethylacetate (EtOAc) and hexanic fractions of five Cameroonian medicinal plants (Piptadeniastum africana, Cissus aralioides, Hileria latifo...

In our previous study, we reported the interesting in vitro antiplasmodial activity of some Rwandan plant extracts. This gave rise to the need for these extracts to also be evaluated in vivo and to identify the compounds responsible for their antiplasmodial activity. The aim of our study was, on the one hand, to evaluate the antiplasmodial activity in vivo and the safety of the selected Rwandan...

Abordando os efeitos dos valores civilizatórios de matriz africana e suas eventuais possibilidades nos processos escolares, este artigo busca, primeiramente, desmistificar diversos significados apostos, pejorativamente, a elementos desta matriz; seguir, se volta para apresentação das bases culturais presentes nesta visão mundo o processo ensino/aprendizagem daí decorrente, forma possibilitar vi...