16 articles in this issue
Kavita Gahlot,V. K. Lal,S. Jha
The Flemingia genus is an important source of medicinal natural products, particularly Flavonoids and steroids. The collected information is an attempt to cover the more recent developments in the ethnobotany, pharmacology and phytochemistry of this genus... see more
Rajesh Gupta,Arun Kumar Gupta,RAJEEV KUMAR SINGLA,G Aiswarya
Leaves of indigenous plant Acacia leucophloea have been successively extracted using different solvents like hexane, methanol and water. Extract was evaluated for its antibacterial activity using two assay method Kirby bauer disc diffusion and tube diluti... see more
Chaitra Narayan,Ravishankar Vittal Rai,Supinya Tewtrakul
Ethanolic and water extracts from six species of Indian medicinal plants mainly distributed in the region of Western Ghats, India such as Morinda citrifolia (leaf), Garcinia indica (leaf), Garcinia cambogia (leaf), Salacia oblonga (leaf), Coccinium fenest... see more
N. P. Geetha,Mahesh M,B. K. Bettadaiah,R. K. Kini,H. S. Prakash
The aim of present study was to develop and validate a simple, precise and rapid HPLC method for the quantification of p-coumaric acid in Leptadinia reticulata extractst. The analysis was performed by reverse-phase chromatography on an phenomenex C18 colu... see more
VINOD MADHAORAO THAKARE,R. Y. Chaudhari,V.R. Patil
The wound healing effect of herbal cream formulated with Curcuma longa, and Cynodon dactylon embedded in different ointment bases (anionic, cationic and non-ionic) has been evaluated in vivo using the incision, excision and dead space tissue wound models... see more
gopi nath,Suneetha T. B,Mruganka Deshpande
ABSTRACT Bovine Mastitis is an intramammary infection which is most common among the dairy cattle and continues to be the most costly disease to the dairy farmers. Presently, antibiotics are used for treatment of mastitis leading to the development... see more
ibrahim ahmed shaikh,Preeti Kulkarni,Ankur Patel,Venkatrao Kulkarni
There is an increased demand of patients to use natural products with antidiabetic activity and ethnobotonical survey conducted revealed that Sida spinosa Linn. root is used in the treatment of diabetes. The present investigation aims to examine the hypog... see more
nasir rasool,Komal Rizwan,Muhammad Zubair,Tahsin Gulzar,Iftikhar Hussain Bukhari,Mazhar Amjad Gilani,Adeela Amjad
Antioxidant effectiveness of indigenous medicinal plant Ziziphus jujuba shoots extracts and fractions with different polarity solvents (n–hexane, ethylacetate, methanol, chloroform) was assessed for total phenolics content (TPC), total flavonoid contents ... see more
Chandan Singh,Santosh Kumar Singh,Gopal Nath,N P Rai
A long tradition of using pepper as to fight against several ailments by the local tribal people is still in the practice, in many parts of the rural India. So utilizing this tribal knowledge base for this highly medicinal plant, an attempt was made to is... see more
Meenakshi Ratra,PL Sharma,Rajesh gupta
Huntington’s disease is a progressive, degenerative disease characterized by abnormal body movements symptoms like chorea and a reduction of body weight . Recently, it has been reported that oxidative stress, which is one of the pathological hallmarks of ... see more
Rhitajit Sarkar,Nripendranath Mandal
Context and Purpose: Cancer continues to represent the largest cause of mortality in the world and claims over 6 million lives each year. An extremely promising strategy for cancer prevention today is chemoprevention, which is defined as the use of synthe... see more
kalynai lingamaneni,A. Lakshmana Rao,U. S. Mishra
The leaves of the plant Lantana camara were extracted with different solvents and screened for their antibacterial and analgesic activities. The chloroform and methanolic extract of the plant Lantana camara has showed the presence of four alkaloid compoun... see more
Prakash chandra gupta,Nisha Sharma,Ch. V. Rao
Cleome viscosa L. (Capparidaceae), commonly known as “wild mustard”, is an annual, sticky herb found as common weed all over the plains of India and throughout the tropics of the world. In traditional systems of medicine the plant is reported to possess b... see more
Nunuk Aries Nurulita,Edy Meiyanto,Sugiyanto Sugiyanto,Eishou Matsuda,Masashi Kawaichi
Our recent study has evaluated fraction of ethyl acetate of Gynura procumbens (FEG) as co-chemotherapeutic agent in combination with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and cisplatin (CISP) against colon cancer cell line, WiDr cells. This study aims to assess whether F... see more
Konaté kiessoun,A. Souza,Kassi Yomalan Thérèse,I. C. Dibala,Nicolas Barro,J. Millogo-Rasolodimby,O. G. Nacoulma
Our aim in this study concerning the ethyl acetate and dichloromethane fractions was to provide a scientific basis for the treatment of hepatitis B in Burkina Faso of these three ethnomedicinal plants. As a result, we evaluated polyphenol content, antioxi... see more
Shafi Thompson Thalikunnil,Arunima Ashok,Sukesh K
This study was conducted to reveal the antibacterial effect of selected medicinal plants from Western Ghats against dental caries bacteria and aware the populace about the importance of using phytomedicines. In this study, the antibacterial effects of nin... see more