Observations and Wrapping up.

During this problem my group has been very busy preparing for finals. We have been communicating by phone but have not met up much. My research has mostly focused on three or four papers and drawn a lot from one of them( Vermaak's). I tried to go beyond the scope of these papers, but the other information I found was either repetitive or unnecessary. I tried searching Google Scholar, Web of Science and Pubmed but all articles had similar info. I have begun transferring data from the google doc into a powerpoint presentation. I am getting a little bit worried because my other group members have not been posting in the google doc. I will try and use the research I have done to answer the necessary questions.

The papers I have used are:

Hoodia gordonii: An Up-to-Date Review of a Commercially Important Anti-Obesity Plant by Ilze Vermaak, Josias H. Hamman, Alvaro M. Viljoen. 2011.


An appetite suppressant from Hoodia species by Fanie R. van Heerden, R. Marthinus Horak, Vinesh J. Maharaj, Robert Vleggaar, Jeremiah V. Senabe, Philip J. Gunning. 2007.

Hoodia gordonii: A natural appetite suppressant by F.R. van Heerden. 2008.

Chemical fingerprint of Hoodia species, dietary supplements, and related genera by using HPTLC by Chidananda Swamy Rumalla, Bharathi Avula, Yatin J. Shukla, Yan-Hong Wang, Rahul S. Pawar, Troy J. Smillie, Ikhlas A. Khan. 2008.

We are now presenting today and will have our final on Tuesday at 12pm. The course is wrapping up very quickly. This class has been challenging, but I feel that I have been pushed to learn in a new way and have picked up research and presentation skills that I will use a lot in future work.

Update: I have added one more source that I used and forgot to add. My group is now all working very hard to finish our powerpoint. Everything is coming along well. I have looked back through the articles and pieced together some of the missing history.