15 articles in this issue
Chandni Tandon,Priti Mathur,Manodeep Sen,Sanjeev Kanojiya
Natural medicines are gaining popularity due to the alarming incidence of bacterial resistance even in regions with improved healthcare systems. Hence, there is a distinct and constant need for isolating medicinally active compounds from different natural... see more
Mohamed Elsayed Nady,Ahmed M. Mansour,Elsayed E. Hafez,Gamal Omran,Gamal M. Hamad,Sahar E. Harraz,Shady N. Allam,Ali A. Ahamad
In this study the protective effect of chicory leaves hydroalcoholic extract (CIE) against acute liver injury induced by a single dose of acetaminophen (700 mg/kg, i.p.) was investigated in rats. The CIE and silymarin treatment (standard reference) were g... see more
Reetika Singh,Nishi Kumari,Gopal Nath
Antioxidant activity of fruit and leaf extracts of Sapindus mukorossi Gaertn. was evaluated through ß- carotene/linoleic acid bleaching assay and hydrogen peroxide scavenging activity. Antimicrobial potential of extracts was also assessed against hu... see more
Sheetal Ramachandran,Darsan Balakrishnan Menon
Lactic acid fermentation and not oxidative phosphorylation is reported to be one of the major bioenergetics mechanisms by which cancer cells thrive and proliferate with such rapidity in non-ambient hypoxic conditions. The objective of the study was to det... see more
Sofiane Habibatni,Natalizia Miceli,Giovanna Ginestra,Zineb Maameri,Carlo Bisignano,Francesco Cacciola,Margita Utczas,Luigi Mondello,Sirajudheen Anwar,Samir Benayache,Damila Zama,Fadila Benayache,Maria Fernanda Taviano
This work aimed to evaluate the antioxidant and antibacterial activities of the hydroalcoholic (80% methanol) extract and n-hexane (n-Hex), chloroform (Chl), ethyl acetate (EtAc), and n-butanol (n-But) phases from Spartium junceum L. stems collected inAlg... see more
Iswar Baitharu,Satya Narayan Deep,Govindasamy Ilavazhagan
Exposure to hypobaric hypoxia (HBH) and reoxygenation (H/R) causes hippocampal neuronal damage leading to memory dysfunction and mood state alteration. The present study aimed at investigating the potential neuroprotective effect of seabuckthorn leaf extr... see more
Saraswathi Jaggali,Prem Kumar,Venkatesh K,Chakrapani P,Arun Jyothi B,Amareshwari P,Sudhakar C,Roja Rani Anupalli
Medicinal plants are an important source of phytochemicals that offer traditional medicinal treatment of various ailments and one of the plants is Pelargonium Graveolens which was grown in Hyderabad province. The preliminary screening of their aerial leav... see more
Jehan Yahya Al-humaidi
Phytochemical screening of P. glutinosa extracts revealed the presence of alkaloids, terpenes, sponins, flavonids, anthraquinone and glycosides. Quantitative determination of total phenolics, total flavonoids, and various in vitro antioxidant activities (... see more
Krishna Murthy,S H Mishra
The objective of the study was to investigate the immunomodulatory activity of roots of Mucuna pruriens on cellular and humoral immunity. Extraction and phytochemical screening of the roots were performed using standard methods, HPTLC fingerprinting... see more
Rakhee Shyam Dangi,Dasharath Oulkar,Prashant Dhakephalkar,Sanjay Kumar Singh,Kaushik Banerjee,Dattatray Naik,Shubhada Tamhankar,Suryaprakasa Rao
The genus Trigonella includes many medicinal and aromatic plant species used in traditional as well as veterinary medicines for different diseases, alone or in combination with other remedies. The crude methanol extracts of 15 Trigonella species were assa... see more
Isabel Behrendt,Inga Schneider,Jan Philipp Schuchardt,Norman Bitterlich,Andreas Hahn
Chronic stress can impair cognitive functions including learning and memory. The current study investigated the reduction of (mental) stress and improvement of stress tolerance in 64 healthy men and women after six weeks intake of a dietary supplement con... see more
Emna Abidi,Jean Habib,Touhami Mahjoub,Feten Belhadj,Meriem Garrab,Assem Elkak
Context and purpose of the study: The leaves, fruits, barks and roots of Arbutus andrachne L (A. andrachne), have been adopted to have high therapeutic value resulting from the presence of antioxidant compounds such as flavonoids, phenolic and tannins. In... see more
Abdulrahman M Alshahrani
ABSTRACTEthnopharmacological relevance: seeds of Coriandrum sativum L. have been used in the traditional medicine to relieve stress and other neurological disease conditions.Aim of the study: The present study was under taken to evaluate the sedative hypn... see more
María Eugenia Letelier,Daniel Rojas-Sepúlveda,Carlos Andrés Gallardo-Garrido
Research of antioxidant properties of herbal thiol compounds is scarce. The main non-enzymatic antioxidant compounds in animal cell are GSH and cysteine. Therefore, in this work, we studied the redox effects of a Chenopodium quinoa Willd (Quinoa) coats ex... see more
Shawn Tomy,Ujwala TK,Sandra Celine,C Senthil Kumar,Sam Johnson Udaya Chander J
Context and Purpose of the Study: DiaKure is a hypoglycemic polyherbal formulation prepared indigenously based on knowledge of traditional medical practitioners, which contains polyherbal mixture of Vetiveria zizanioides (root), Hemidesmus indicus (rhizom... see more