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vinodhini singanan Rajamanickam

Ambo University

Salman Ahmed

University of Karachi

Yusuf Öztürk

Istanbul Aydin University

Hassan Poormohammadi

University of Tehran

Jesús Pérez-Seoane

Universidade de Vigo

Ludwig Kappos

University of Basel, University Hospital

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UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Papers by Brent Berlin

The World Color Survey

by Brent Berlin and Luisa Maffi

Color Naming Across Languages

by Brent Berlin and Luisa Maffi

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Les ong et le processus d'autorisation préalable dans la recherche de bioprospection : le projet Maya icbg aux Chiapas, Mexique

Revue internationale des sciences sociales, 2003

The Maya ICBG: Drug Discovery, Medical Ethnobiology, And Alternative Forms Of Economic Development In The Highland Maya Region Of Chiapas, Mexico

by David Puett, Brent Berlin, and Elois Berlin

Pharmaceutical Biology, 1999

Abstract: One of the most recently funded groups, known as the Maya ICBG, is being carried out in... more

Biocultural Implications of Systems of Color Naming

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 1991

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NGOs and the process of prior informed consent in bioprospecting research: the Maya ICBG project in Chiapas, Mexico

International Social Science Journal, 2003

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On Maya Medicine and the Biomedical Gaze

Current Anthropology, 2002

... 2000. Zapotec science. Berkeley: University of California Press. First citation in article. H... more

Covert Categories and Folk Taxonomies

American Anthropologist, 1968

lexically labeled units.

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General Principles of Classification and Nomenclature in Folk Biology

American Anthropologist, 1973

... Numeral classifiers are obliga-tory expressions which must be used when counting certain obje... more ... Numeral classifiers are obliga-tory expressions which must be used when counting certain objects in Tzeltal (see Berlin 1968). Thus, three trees would be stated as 301-tehk tep &amp;#x27;three members of the plant class tree&amp;#x27;. Animal names, on the other hand, occur with the numeral ...

A microbiological evaluation of medicinal plants used by the Maya people of Southern Mexico

by Mariana Meckes and Brent Berlin

Phytotherapy Research, 1995

A microbiological evaluation was conducted on those medicinal plants most frequently used to trea... more A microbiological evaluation was conducted on those medicinal plants most frequently used to treat gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases by Tzeltal and Tzotzil communities in the highlands of Chiapas. The results obtained showed that many of the species induced antimicrobial activity in uirro. The present study allowed selection of three groups of plants with potent effect against gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus, gram-negative Escherichia coli bacteria and Candida dbicuns. It was also demonstrated that 63% of the botanical species that showed antimicrobial properties, enhanced (46%) or induced (17%) the effect under exposure of the plant extracts to UV-A light. In the search for new molecules with therapeutic value, the present screening offers a preliminary selection of groups of botanical species; within each, there are several representatives that merit further evaluation as potential antibiotics and photosensitizers.