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Pharmacognosy Research
Volume 2, Issue 4
· pp. 203–272 · 15 articles
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 4
- Published
- Pages
- 203–272
- Articles
- 15
- Sections
- 3
- ISSN
- 0974-8490
- Journal
- PR
In this issue
Editorial
- Article
Ambrose Furey
pp. 203-204 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69101 · 2010
In this month’s issue of Pharmacognosy Research, I would like to concentrate on the methodologies that are employed to assess the nature of the bioactivities of plant extracts. In vivo and / or in vitro test models, toge…
Original Article
Eugênia C. Pereira, Nicácio H. da Silva, Renata Almeida Santos, Ana Patrícia Paiva Sudário, Antonio Alfredo Rodrigues e Silva, Maria Bernadete de Sousa Maia
pp. 205-210 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69102 · 2010
Lichens produce a variety of substances that possesses pharmacological actions. However, rare products are submitted to rigorous scientific tests or have the risk potential or side effects evaluated. The lack of medical …
A. L. Ahmed, S. E. M. Bassem, Y. H. Mohamed, M. W. Gamila
pp. 211-214 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69105 · 2010
The cytotoxicity against brine shrimp of the essential oil obtained from the leaves of Annona senegalensis Pers. (Annonaceae) was studied. The confirmation of this toxicity has been done by using selected tumor cell line…
Geethaa Sahgal, Surash Ramanathan, Sreenivasan Sasidharan, Mohd. Nizam Mordi, Sabariah Ismail, Sharif Mahsufi Mansor
pp. 215-220 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69107 · 2010
The seeds of Swietenia mahagoni have been applied in folk medicine for the treatment of hypertension, diabetes, malaria, amoebiasis, cough, chest pain, and intestinal parasitism. Here we are the first to report on the to…
Ian Cock, F. R. Kalt
pp. 221-228 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69108 · 2010
Traditional methods of screening plant extracts and purified components for antiviral activity require up to a week to perform, prompting the need to develop more rapid quantitative methods to measure the ability of plan…
Pierre C. Djemgou, Taha A. Hussien, Mohamed-Elamir F. Hegazy, François Ngandeu, Gilles Neguim, Pierre Tane, Abou-El-Hamd H. Mohamed
pp. 229-232 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69110 · 2010
The genus Bersama belongs to the Melianthaceae family and comprises of four species (B. swinnyi, B. yangambiensis, B. abyssinica, and B. engleriana) all of which are very high trees; the latter two detected species are f…
Subramanian Arulkumar, Muthukumaran Sabesan
pp. 233-236 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69112 · 2010
Development of biologically inspired experimental processes for the synthesis of nanoparticles is evolving an important branch of nanotechnology. The bioreduction behavior of plant seed extract of Mucuna pruriens in the …
N. M. A. Rasheed, V. C. Gupta
pp. 237-241 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69115 · 2010
With global realization that use of synthetic drugs is not safe on the long run, the medical fraternity at large is looking at alternatives from natural sources to combat diseases particularly those wherein conventional …
R. N. Sriramaneni, Ameer Z. Omar, Salman M. Ibrahim, Sadikun Amirin, Asmawi Mohd Zaini
pp. 242-246 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69125 · 2010
The aim of the present study is to evaluate the possible mechanism of the vasorelaxant effect of the Andrographis paniculata chloroform extract (APCE) and diterpenoids, such as, 14-deoxyandrographolide (DA) and 14-deoxy-…
R. Barani Kumar, B. Shanmugapriya, K. Thiyagesan, S. Raj Kumar, Suresh M. Xavier
pp. 247-253 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69126 · 2010
Sterol is a very vital compound for most of the insects and mosquitoes to complete their life cycle. Unfortunately mosquitoes cannot synthesize the sterol, it depends on mammals for the same. Mosquitoes take the sterol f…
Meenakshi Singh, Sayyada Khatoon, Shweta Singh, Vivek Kumar, Ajay Kumar Singh Rawat, Shanta Mehrotra
pp. 254-257 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69127 · 2010
The stem barks are the rich sources of tannins and other phenolic compounds. Tannins inhibited the growth of various fungi, yeast, bacteria and virus. Hence, ten stem barks of ethnomedicinally important plants were scree…
R. S. Kujur, Vishakha Singh, Mahendra Ram, Harlokesh Narayan Yadava, K. K. Singh, Suruchi Kumari, B. K. Roy
pp. 258-263 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69128 · 2010
Stevia rebaudiana regulates blood sugar, prevents hypertension and tooth decay. Other studies have shown that it has antibacterial as well as antiviral property. Preliminary phytochemical screening of aqueous, ether and …
S. B. Jaju, N. H. Indurwade, D. M. Sakarkar, N. K. Fuloria, M. D. Ali, S. P. Basu
pp. 264-266 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69129 · 2010
The purpose of present investigation to isolate b-sitosterol diglucosyl caprate from the rhizomes of Alpinia galanga. The methanolic extract of the rhizomes of plant Alpinia galanga was subjected to column chromatography…
Rahimi Rahmatollah, Rabani Mahbobeh
pp. 267-270 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69130 · 2010
In this work, mineral contents of 4 plants used in Iran were determined by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometry. The concentrations were calculated on a dry weight basis. All materials contained high a…
Short Communication
A. B. D. Selvam
pp. 271-272 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.69131 · 2010