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Adult fly age estimations using cuticular hydrocarbons and Artificial Neural Networks in forensically important Calliphoridae species (2017)
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Moore, H. E., Butcher, J. B., Day, C. R., & Drijfhout, F. P. (2017). Adult fly age estimations using cuticular hydrocarbons and Artificial Neural Networks in forensically important Calliphoridae species. Forensic Science International, 280, Article 233-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.10.001

Blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) are forensically important as they are known to be one of the first to colonise human remains. The larval stage is typically used to assist a forensic entomologists with adult flies rarely used as they are difficult... Read More about Adult fly age estimations using cuticular hydrocarbons and Artificial Neural Networks in forensically important Calliphoridae species.

Isochondodendrine and 2-norcocsuline: additional alkaloids from Triclisia subcordata induce cytotoxicity and apoptosis in ovarian cancer cell lines (2017)
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Ijeoma Uche, F., Abed, M. N., Abdullah, M. I., Drijfhout, F. P., McCullagh, J., Claridge, T. W., …Li, W. (2017). Isochondodendrine and 2-norcocsuline: additional alkaloids from Triclisia subcordata induce cytotoxicity and apoptosis in ovarian cancer cell lines. RSC advances, 44154 -44161. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7RA08032H

Triclisia subcordata Oliv (Menispermeaceae) is used in herbal medicine for the treatment of cancer and other diseases in Africa. This study aims to isolate minor alkaloids present in this plant and assay their cytotoxic activities. Isochondodendrine... Read More about Isochondodendrine and 2-norcocsuline: additional alkaloids from Triclisia subcordata induce cytotoxicity and apoptosis in ovarian cancer cell lines.

Dietary geranylgeraniol can limit the activity of pitavastatin as a potential treatment for drug-resistant ovarian cancer (2017)
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de Wolf, E., Abdullah, M. I., Jones, S. M., Menezes, K., Moss, D. M., Drijfhout, F., …Richardson, A. (2017). Dietary geranylgeraniol can limit the activity of pitavastatin as a potential treatment for drug-resistant ovarian cancer. Scientific reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05595-4

Pre-clinical and retrospective studies of patients using statins to reduce plasma cholesterol have suggested that statins may be useful to treat cancer. However, prospective clinical trials have yet to demonstrate significant efficacy. We have previo... Read More about Dietary geranylgeraniol can limit the activity of pitavastatin as a potential treatment for drug-resistant ovarian cancer.

The potential use of cuticular hydrocarbons and multivariate analysis to age empty puparial cases of Calliphora vicina and Lucilia sericata (2017)
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Drijfhout. (2017). The potential use of cuticular hydrocarbons and multivariate analysis to age empty puparial cases of Calliphora vicina and Lucilia sericata. Scientific reports, 1933 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01667-7

Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) have been successfully used in the field of forensic entomology for identifying and ageing forensically important blowfly species, primarily in the larval stages. However in older scenes where all other entomological evid... Read More about The potential use of cuticular hydrocarbons and multivariate analysis to age empty puparial cases of Calliphora vicina and Lucilia sericata.

Alarm Pheromone Composition and Behavioral Activity in Fungus-Growing Ants. (2017)
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Drijfhout. (2017). Alarm Pheromone Composition and Behavioral Activity in Fungus-Growing Ants. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 225 - 235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-017-0821-4

Chemical communication is a dominant method of communication throughout the animal kingdom and can be especially important in group-living animals in which communicating threats, either from predation or other dangers, can have large impacts on group... Read More about Alarm Pheromone Composition and Behavioral Activity in Fungus-Growing Ants..

A characterization of the antimalarial activity of the bark of Cylicodiscus gabunensis Harms (2017)
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Aldulaimi, O., Uche a, F. I., Hameed, H., Mbye, H., Ullah, I., Drijfhout, F., …Li, W. (2017). A characterization of the antimalarial activity of the bark of Cylicodiscus gabunensis Harms. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 198, 221-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2017.01.014

Ethnopharmacological relevance and aim
A decoction of the bark of Cylicodiscus gabunensis Harms is used as a traditional medicine in the treatment of malaria in Nigeria. This study aims to validate the antimalarial potency of this decoction in vitro... Read More about A characterization of the antimalarial activity of the bark of Cylicodiscus gabunensis Harms.