Among strategies to combat malaria, the search for new antimalarial drugs appears to be a priority. Sheering for new antimalarial activities, four plants of the traditional medicine of Burkina Faso: Combretum micranthum, Khaya senegalensis, Pterocarpus erinaceus and Sida acuta, were tested in vitro on fresh clinical isolates of Plasmodium falciparum. The screening showed that Sida acuta has a s...

Our study was to investigate the impact of Hericium erinaceus on the antitumor effects of doxorubicin (DOX) in gastric cancer cell line SGC7901 and explore the possible mechanism. Hot water extracts of the fruiting body of Hericium erinaceus were used in the study. Hot water extraction was fractionated by DEAE-cellulose and Sepharose CL-6B column chromatography. The purified components (HE) pri...

Infestation of the Caparinia tripilis mite in native Korean wild hedgehogs (Erinaceus amurensis) is described in this report. Five hedgehogs, including two adult males and three adult females, were rescued from the wild and referred to the Animal Health Centre of the Seoul Zoo, Korea. They were exhibited after completing quarantine. After one year and two months of exhibition, all hedgehogs beg...

Trichophyton erinacei is a main cause of dermatophytosis in hedgehogs and increasingly reported from human infections worldwide. This pathogen was originally described the European hedgehog ( Erinaceus europaeus ) but also frequently found African four-toed Atelerix albiventris ), popular pet animal Little known about taxonomy population genetics this despite its increasing importance clinical ...

OBJECTIVE To study the ability of aqueous extract of Hericium erinaceus mushroom in the treatment of nerve injury following peroneal nerve crush in Sprague-Dawley rats. METHODS Aqueous extract of Hericium erinaceus was given by daily oral administration following peroneal nerve crush injury in Sprague-Dawley rats. The expression of protein kinase B (Akt) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (...

Investigations of nest predation are often limited by the researchers’ inability to identify nest predators accurately. I tested a chemical bait marker, Rhodamine B (RB), as an indicator of egg predation at artificial ground nests. In a pen trial, the presence of characteristic fluorescent bands in one or more facial vibrissae from all treatment animals confirmed the suitability of RB as a bait...

In this study we aimed to examine wild European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) in rescue centres and to determine ocular abnormalities in this animal population. Three hundred animals varying in age from 2 months to 5 years were examined, 147 being male and 153 female. All animals were evaluated with direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy and slit lamp biomicroscopy in animals where lesions were d...