The chemical ecology approach to modern and early human use of medicinal plants

IF 1.6 3区环境科学与生态学 Q4 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Chemoecology Pub Date : 2020-02-25 DOI:10.1007/s00049-020-00302-8

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, André Luiz Borba do Nascimento, Leonardo Silva Chaves, Ivanilda Soares Feitosa, Joelson Moreno Brito de Moura, Paulo Henrique Santos Gonçalves, Risoneide Henriques da Silva, Taline Cristina da Silva, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior

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Abstract

The chemical environment, and the natural resources available in which our species has evolved has been crucial for the establishment of our medical practices. Here we present a brief review of the insights provided by chemical ecology to understand the evolution of medical practices since ancestral hominids to modern humans, as well as their implications for the search for new drugs of natural origin. Like for any other mammal, ecological and evolutionary processes have shaped how we relate to plant and animal chemicals, whether to avoid, transform and/or explore these compounds according to our needs. In addition, culture has played a key role in the way these chemicals are perceived by people and how they can be processed by different modes of use for ingestion, as well as providing cultural significance for their use (in medicine, for example) or their rejection altogether.

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现代和早期人类使用药用植物的化学生态学方法

人类赖以进化的化学环境和自然资源对医学实践的建立起了至关重要的作用。在这里，我们简要回顾了化学生态学提供的见解，以了解从祖先原始人到现代人类的医疗实践的演变，以及它们对寻找天然来源的新药的影响。像任何其他哺乳动物一样，生态和进化过程塑造了我们与植物和动物化学物质的关系，是否根据我们的需要避免、转化和/或探索这些化合物。此外，文化在人们感知这些化学物质的方式以及如何通过不同的使用方式处理它们以摄入方面发挥了关键作用，并为它们的使用(例如在医学上)或完全拒绝它们提供了文化意义。

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Chemoecology 环境科学-生化与分子生物学

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4.20

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0.00%

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审稿时长

>36 weeks

期刊介绍： It is the aim of Chemoecology to promote and stimulate basic science in the field of chemical ecology by publishing research papers that integrate evolution and/or ecology and chemistry in an attempt to increase our understanding of the biological significance of natural products. Its scopes cover the evolutionary biology, mechanisms and chemistry of biotic interactions and the evolution and synthesis of the underlying natural products. Manuscripts on the evolution and ecology of trophic relationships, intra- and interspecific communication, competition, and other kinds of chemical communication in all types of organismic interactions will be considered suitable for publication. Ecological studies of trophic interactions will be considered also if they are based on the information of the transmission of natural products (e.g. fatty acids) through the food-chain. Chemoecology further publishes papers that relate to the evolution and ecology of interactions mediated by non-volatile compounds (e.g. adhesive secretions). Mechanistic approaches may include the identification, biosynthesis and metabolism of substances that carry information and the elucidation of receptor- and transduction systems using physiological, biochemical and molecular techniques. Papers describing the structure and functional morphology of organs involved in chemical communication will also be considered.