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Anti-inflammatory and analgesic activity in alcoholic extract of Tamus communis L.

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Les racines tubereuses de T. communis L. (Dioscoreaceae), indigene en Italie, sont utilisees comme cathartique et diuretique et, localement, dans l'inflammation, on observe chez le rat une action anti-inflammatoire et antalgique.
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This article is published in Journal of Ethnopharmacology.The article was published on 1983-09-01. It has received 19 citations till now.

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A review of plants used in folk veterinary medicine in Italy as basis for a databank.

TL;DR: Folk veterinary phytotherapy in Italy collected from ethnobotanical scientific literature of the second half of the 20th Century represents the basis for the first national databank for ethnoveterinary botany in Europe.
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Plants used as remedies antirheumatic and antineuralgic in the traditional medicine of Lebanon.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of the traditional use of plants to cure antirheumatic and antineuralgic diseases was carried out in Lebanon for five years (2002-2007).
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Biological screening of Italian medicinal plants for anti‐inflammatory activity

TL;DR: Plants of 27 families, encompassing 75 species, have been selected on the basis of medicinal folklore and overall 72% exhibited some anti‐inflammatory activity, using carrageenin foot oedema in rats.
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Biological screening of Italian medicinal plants for antibacterial activity

TL;DR: Some 68 plant extracts from 65 species belonging to 25 families were investigated for antibacterial activity against eight gram‐positive and gram‐negative bacteria and among the active extracts, 12 from 11 species exhibited a broad spectrum of activity.
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Medicinal plants and phytotherapy in the Amalfitan Coast, Salerno Province, Campania, southern Italy.

TL;DR: The results of an investigation carried out from April 1990 to October 1991 in the Amalfitan Coast, Salerno Province (Southern Italy) show that one hundred and twenty-five species used in traditional medicine, belonging to 53 families, were unknown in Italian phytotherapy or present an unknown therapeutic use.
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Carrageenin-Induced Edema in Hind Paw of the Rat as an Assay for Antiinflammatory Drugs

TL;DR: The potency ratios obtained for aspirin, phenylbutazone and hydrocortisone are fairly close to the ratios of their respective daily doses in the treatment of rheumatic disease.
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Effect of alterations in side chain upon anti-inflammatory and liver glycogen activities of hydrocortisone esters.

TL;DR: A number of esters of hydrocortisone and related steroids have been examined for activity in the granuloma inhibition (subcutaneous cotton pellet) test, both after local application of the steroids and after systemic administration as mentioned in this paper.
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Pharmacology of 2-amino-indane hydrochloride (su-8629): a potent non-narcotic analgesic

TL;DR: Su-8629 (2-amino-indane) has oral analgesic potency and a therapeutic index comparable to morphine sulfate; it is unlike morphine in that it does not depress respiration and is not antagonized by nalorphine.
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Sterols, fatty acids and free amino acids from two Helvella species

TL;DR: The aqueous extract of H. monachella inhibits prostaglandin release by rat peritoneal leucocyres in vitro andLinoleic acid and l -Dopa are the most abundant fatty acid and free amino acid, respectively.