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Research   The symbolic efficacy of medicinal plants: practices, knowledge, and religious beliefs amongst the Nalu healers of Guinea-Bissau
Frazão-Moreira A Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2016, 12 :24 (17 June 2016)
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Research   Beyond food and medicine, but necessary for life, too: other folk plant uses in several territories of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands
Gras A, Garnatje T, Bonet M, Carrió E, Mayans M, Parada M, Rigat M, Vallès J Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2016, 12 :23 (17 June 2016)  Research  
Medicinal plants sold at traditional markets in southern Ecuador
Tinitana F, Rios M, Romero-Benavides J, de la Cruz Rot M, Pardo-de-Santayana M Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2016, 12 :29 (5 July 2016)
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Research article   Molecular characterization of protein kinase C delta (PKCδ)-Smac interactions
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