18 articles in this issue
Lai Wang, Debmalya Roy, Sen Sen Lin, Sheng Tao Yuan, Li Sun
The aim of this study was to investigate the hypoglycemic effect of Camellia chrysantha using type 2 diabetic mice model. The ethyl acetate/dichloromethane extract exhibited the most effective hypoglycemic effect. Compared to model group, all the thr... see more
Syeda Papia Sultana, Md. Sayedur Rahman
Dynamic online antimicrobial guideline with stewardship program was attempted in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) to improve the antimicrobial prescribing. The prescribing pattern was evaluated by retrospective prescription audit. Overa... see more
Kandasamy Sasikumar, M. Pavithra, Asit Ranjan Ghosh
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Gunasekaran Shylaja, Arunachalam Sathiavelu
Xueying Liu, Xiaoku Ran, Deqiang Dou, Decheng Cai
The effectiveness of water decoction of Tagetes patula was studied against the chronic nonbacterial prostatitis in a rat model induced by estradiol subcuta-neously in a castrated male rat. The low-dose decoction of T. patula significantly amel... see more
Irfan Hamid, Khalid Hussain Janbaz
The study was conducted to provide the ethnopharmacological bases of the crude extract of seed pods of Ceratonia siliqua in the gastrointestinal spasm, diarrhea and emesis. In segregated rabbit jejunum, it showed dose-dependent (0.01-10 mg/mL) relaxation ... see more
Chun Chen, Lei Lin
The purpose of the present study was to assess whether pre-operative and post-operative B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels could be used as the predictor of post-operative complications in Chinese patients undergoing elective surgery under general an... see more
Zahra Rabiei, Sajad Naderi, Mahmoud Rafieian-Kopaei
The aim of this study was to investigate the antidepressant effects of grape seed oil in male mice (n=60) using tail suspension and forced swim tests. Mice were divided to six groups of 10 in each group. Group I: Intraperitoneally receiving normal saline;... see more
Ambreen Malik Uttra, . Alamgeer
The present study determines the anti-arthritic potential of Ephedra gerardiana ethanolic extract and its ethyl acetate, n-butanol and aqueous fractions adopting in vitro and in vivo tests. In vitro tests included thermally induced bovine serum albumin de... see more
Ajaykumar Rikhabchand Surana, Rajendra Dayaram Wagh
Hamelia patens is used in folk medicine in the treatment of nervous shock. The present study deals to evaluate the antidepressant-like effects of chloroform and methanol extracts of H. patens on the performance of male mice and GC-MS profiling of bioactiv... see more
Usman Akhtar, Mobasher Ahmad
The aim of this review is to report the medicinal plants which have anti- fibrotic effect characterized in different studies. They are summarized which include name of the plants, part used, liver fibrosis model, fraction of plant used and observations. T... see more
Abdul Wajid Khalil, Zafar Iqbal, Achyut Adhikari
Boerhavia procumbens is a medicinal herb used in the treatment of various ailments including asthma, cough and jaundice. The concentration of calcium (280.7 ± 0.0 mg/100 g, 102.3 ± 0.0 mg/100 g), potassium (240.4 ± 0.0 mg/100 g, 92.1 ± 0.0 mg/100 g), aspa... see more
Sang Ho Kim, Chanchal Sharma, Imran Khan, Sun Chul Kang
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has turn out to be an excellent vertebrate organism for analyzing developmental stages, disease modeling, and screening of drug toxicities due to their minuscule, high fecundity, optical transparency and there close parallels w... see more
Muhammad Jawad, Haroon Khan, Samreen Pervez, Saud S. Bawazeer, Tareq Abu-Izneid, Muhammad Saeed, Mohammad A. Kamal
The current study deals with anxiolytic, muscle relaxant and sedative like activities of Capsicum annuum in animal models. The crude extract was found safe in acute behavior and toxicity studies. However, the n-hexane fraction caused severe acute toxicity... see more
Azadeh Salehi, Mahbubeh Setorki
The present study investigated the effect of H. officinalis essential oil on avoidance memory in chronic stress-induced. Mice were exposed to chronic immobilization stress and were treated with H. officinalis essential oil for 21 days. Memory and learning... see more
Uzma Saleem, Shakila Sabir, Bashir Ahmad
Chemotherapy-induced alopecia affects the pathological as well as the psychological aspects of the cancer patient. In the present study, the protective role of Nigella sativa was evaluated in both adult and newborn albino rats. The anagen phase was first ... see more
Kerem Canli, Ozcan Simsek, Ali Yetgin, Ergin Murat Altuner
Frankenia hirsuta is widely located in Turkey, but the antimicrobial potential and biochemical composition analysis of it weren’t determined yet. By using the disk diffusion method, the susceptibility of 17 bacteria and 1 fungi were analyzed, which includ... see more
Esen Sezen Karaoglan, Ufuk Özgen, Cavit Kazaz