ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: The species Siparuna guianensis Aublet (family Siparunaceae) is traditionally used by indigenous peoples and riverine communities in Central and South America to treat migraines, flu, respiratory diseases, fever, pain,...
With the rapid increase in the number of commercial chemicals, testing methods regarding on median lethal dose (LD) relying animal experiments face challenges such as high costs and ethical concerns. Classical quantitative structure-activity relation...
Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Jul 18, 2024
The excessive application and loss of pesticides poses a great risk to the ecosystem, and the environmental safety assessment of pesticides is time-consuming and expensive using traditional animal toxicity tests. In this work, a pesticide acute toxic...
Fish is one of the model animals used to evaluate the adverse effects of a chemical exposed to the ecosystem. However, its low throughput and relevantly high expense make it impossible to test all new chemicals in manufacture. Hence, using in silico ...
Toxicology in vitro : an international journal published in association with BIBRA
Jan 11, 2021
In recent years, the decline of honey bees and the collapse of bee colonies have caught the attention of ecologists, and the use of pesticides is one of the main reasons for the decline. Therefore, ecological risk assessment of pesticides is essentia...
Haemonchus contortus constitutes a severe problem for ruminant's production, it is the most frequent nematode parasite both in template and tropical regions, induces economical losses, and shows increasing resistance to currently available anthelmint...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Oct 27, 2017
Median lethal death, LD, is a general indicator of compound acute oral toxicity (AOT). Various in silico methods were developed for AOT prediction to reduce costs and time. In this study, we developed an improved molecular graph encoding convolutiona...
Considering the limitations of use and side effects of existing analgesics, the discovery of new analgesics is necessary. Venoms of organisms are an important source of analgesic peptides. In this study, using computational biology methods such as mo...
Pakistan journal of pharmaceutical sciences
Nov 1, 2016
Current scolicidal agents, which have been used for inactivation of protoscoleces during hydatid cyst surgery are associated with adverse side effects. This study aims to evaluate the in vitro scolicidal effects of Nectaroscordum tripedale L. leave e...
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