Canarium schweinfurthii is a common medicinal plant used as food and medicine in communities of central Uganda. Local herbalists commonly it the management diabetes mellitus type 2 with limited information on its effectiveness.  Study assessed hypoglycemic effect C. aqueous total crude leaf pulp extracts blood glucose levels Wistar albino rats. An experimental based laboratory-based study ...

OF THE THESIS Diurnal Evidence of a Nocturnal Feeder: Using Feeding Traces to Understand Aye-Ayes’ Feeding Strategy in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar by Timothy Mikhail Sefczek Master of Arts in Anthropology San Diego State University, 2009 This thesis explores the feeding strategy of aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis) before and during the pronounced fruiting season of Canarium sp. ...

BACKGROUND Malignacies are still a major public concern worldwide and despite the intensive search for new chemotherapeutic agents, treatment still remains a challenging issue. This work was designed to assess the cytotoxicity of six selected Cameroonian medicinal plants, including Nauclea pobeguinii and its constituents 3-acetoxy-11-oxo-urs-12-ene (1), p-coumaric acid (2), citric acid trimethy...

Underutilized species is referred to which little or no attention paid by the policymakers, agricultural researchers, and plant breeders. Medicinal plants used in traditional medicine have a natural origin, are effective, less expensive. Traditional doctors African countries make use of treating millions people. Albizia zygia, Alstonia boonei, Tetrapleura tetraptera, Newbouldia laevis Canarium ...