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PAMs inhibits monoamine oxidase a activity and reduces glioma tumor growth, a potential adjuvant treatment for glioma
Natural plant antimicrobial solution alone or co-administration with low doses of temozolomide may be a potential adjuvant to reduce the toxicity of temozolomide and to evade drug resistance for the effective treatment of glioma.
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Determining the antimicrobial activity of plant extracts and publishing the results
In this review one of our Section Editors, Jacobus Eloff, provides advice for researchers who wish to investigate the antimicrobial properties of plant derived extracts.
BMC Series Focus Issues
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July: Open data and data sharing
Data are the cornerstones to transparency and reproducibility of research. At the BMC Series, we offer different article types to help you share your data. Explore some of our open access data publications in this focus issue and browse through the additional reading and resources to learn more about this topic.
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June: Water and Sanitation.
In celebration of World Environment Day on the 5th June, the BMC Series presents a focus issue on Water and Sanitation. We have collated open-access content from across our journals to highlight research into clean water, investigating links between water and health and our overall relationship with water.
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies – we’ve updated our Research Standards
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We are pleased to announce the new Research Standards for manuscripts submitted to BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies. These changes renew the journal’s commitment to providing objective evidence for the efficacy or utilisation of complementary and alternative therapies. We will consider all manuscripts which meet these criteria. Click the button below to read more.
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Bio-guided bioactive profiling and HPLC-DAD fingerprinting of Ukrainian saffron (Crocus sativus stigmas): moving from correlation toward causation
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Effects of Stephania hainanensis alkaloids on MSU-induced acute gouty arthritis in mice
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Addressing barriers to the conduct and application of research in complementary and alternative medicine: a scoping review
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Barriers and facilitators to promoting evidence uptake in Chinese medicine: a qualitative study in Hong Kong
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In vitro antibacterial activity of some plant essential oils
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Frankincense oil derived from Boswellia carteri induces tumor cell specific cytotoxicity
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Inhibitory effect of green coffee bean extract on fat accumulation and body weight gain in mice
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Antioxidant activity, total phenolic and total flavonoid contents of whole plant extracts Torilis leptophylla L
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Clinical research evidence of cupping therapy in China: a systematic literature review
Aims and scope
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles on interventions and resources that complement or replace conventional therapies, with a specific emphasis on research that explores the biological mechanisms of action, as well as their efficacy, safety, costs, patterns of use and/or implementation.
About to Submit a Systematic Review?
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies is affiliated with Cochrane Complementary Medicine. The purpose of this affiliation is to improve the standard of Systematic Review reporting at the journal. Click the link below for an Editorial with more information on this partnership and how the journal treats Systematic Reviews.
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Anne Menard, BioMed Central
Assistant Editors
Esther Fagelson, BioMed Central
Kate Gaines, BioMed Central
Senior Editorial Board Members
Victor Kuete, University of Dschang
Jianping Liu, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
Insop Shim, Kyung Hee University
Jenny Wilkinson, Charles Sturt University
Amie Steel, University of Technology Sydney
Insop Shim, Section Editor
I am currently a professor at College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University. I hold a Ph.D. in Biopsychology (Behavioral Neuroscience) from University of Illinois at Chicago and completed my post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine University of Illinois. I am a member of the Society for Neuroscience and have served as an organizing committee of many International conferences and served as the Editor-in-Chief of Korean Society of Stress Medicine and Executive Editor of Experimental Neurobiology.
My research expertise is in the areas of neural mechanisms responsible for motivational behaviors including stress, drugs of abuse, and learning and memory. It is the goal of my research in particular, to elucidate both the effects and the mechanisms of action of the herbal medicine or complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) using animal models of stress-related diseases such as anxiety, depression, insomnia or learning and memory. I have joined a board member since Aug, 2016.
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BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies is affiliated with ISCMR, the international society for complementary medicine research and Cochrane Complementary Medicine
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Speed
83 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
39 days to first decision for all manuscripts
217 days from submission to acceptance
23 days from acceptance to publicationCitation Impact
For BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (former title)
3.659 - 2-year Impact Factor
3.767 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.505 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.764 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)Usage
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