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Scientific articles about dietary supplements, health and nutrition.

Cameroonian medicinal plants: a bioactivity versus ethnobotanical survey and chemotaxonomic classification

Cameroonian medicinal plants: a bioactivity versus ethnobotanical survey and chemotaxonomic classification

In Cameroon herbs are traditionally used to meet health care needs and plans are on the way to integrate traditional medicine in the health care system, even though the plans […]

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Inhibition of Irvingia gabonensis seed extract (OB131) on adipogenesis as mediated via down regulation of the PPARgamma and Leptin genes and up-regulation of the adiponectin gene

Inhibition of Irvingia gabonensis seed extract (OB131) on adipogenesis as mediated via down regulation of the PPARgamma and Leptin genes and up-regulation of the adiponectin gene

Endeavors to manage obesity have been heavily reliant on controlling energy intake and expenditure equilibrium, but have failed to curtail the overweight and obesity epidemic. This dynamic equilibrium is more […]

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Cytisine – renaissance of well known alkaloid. Pharmacological aspects of efficacy in the treatment of tobacco dependence.

Cytisine – renaissance of well known alkaloid. Pharmacological aspects of efficacy in the treatment of tobacco dependence

Cytisine is an alkaloid of plant origin known in the health service for over fifty years, having agonistic properties to cholinergic nicotinic receptors. In the recent years, a few interesting […]

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