Mohammad Asaduzzaman Chowdhury, Md. Bengir Ahmed Shuvho, Md. Abdus Shahid, Ashraful Haque et al.
The rapid spread of COVID-19 has led to nationwide lockdowns in many countries. The COVID-19 pandemic has played serious havoc on economic activities throughout the world. Researchers are immensely curious about how to give the best protection to people before a vaccine becomes available. The corona...
Shi Hyoung Kim, Jae Gwang Park, Jongsung Lee, Woo Seok Yang et al.
Even though a lot of reports have suggested the anti-inflammatory activity of kaempferol (KF) in macrophages, little is known about its exact anti-inflammatory mode of action and its immunopharmacological target molecules. In this study, we explored anti-inflammatory activity of KF in LPS-treated ma...
Thomas Butler, M R Islam, Muhammad Abul Kalam Azad, Paul K. Jones
Abdullah Al Nahain, Rownak Jahan, Mohammed Rahmatullah
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease particularly affecting elderly people which leads to massive bone destruction with consequent inflammation, pain, and debility. Allopathic medicine can provide only symptomatic relief. However, Zingiber officinale is a plant belonging to the Zingibe...
Sabrina Afroz, M Alamgir, Majid Khan, S. Jabbar et al.
Paederia foetida L. is used as a remedy for diarrhoea and dysentery in Asia, but has not been investigated for its antidiarrhoeal properties. Antidiarrhoeal activity of 90% ethanol extract of Paederia foetida was investigated in this study using castor oil and magnesium sulphate-induced diarrhoea mo...
Rafiqul Islam, Md. Raihan Chowdhury, Rie Wakabayashi, Yoshiro Tahara et al.
Transdermal delivery of drugs is more challenging for drugs that are insoluble or sparingly soluble in water and most organic solvents. To overcome this problem, ionic liquid (IL)-mediated ternary systems have been suggested as potential drug carriers. Here, we report potent ternary (IL-EtOH-IPM) sy...
Chia‐Wei Phan, Guan-Serm Lee, Sok Lai Hong, Yuin-Teng Wong et al.
Hericium erinaceus (Bull.: Fr.) Pers. is an edible and medicinal mushroom used traditionally to improve memory. In this study, we investigated the neuritogenic effects of hericenones isolated from H. erinaceus and the mechanisms of action involved. H. erinaceus was cultivated and the secondary metab...
Talha Bin Emran, Fahadul Islam, Nikhil Nath, Hriday Sutradhar et al.
The glycosides of two flavonoids, naringin and naringenin, are found in various citrus fruits, bergamots, tomatoes, and other fruits. These phytochemicals are associated with multiple biological functions, including neuroprotective, antioxidant, anticancer, antiviral, antibacterial, anti-inflammator...
Abu Shara Shamsur Rouf, Mohammad Saiful Islam, Md. Ashib Rahman
The partitioned n-hexane, ethylacetate and residual methanol extracts of the root of Rumex maritimus were evaluated for antidiarrhoeal activity in mice using castor oil and serotonin induced diarrhoea and also charcoal motility test at 50, 100 and 200 mg/kg body weight dose. Among these, the methano...
Abdullah Al Mamun Sohag, Md. Tahmeed Hossain, Md. Arifur Rahaman, Papia Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND Plant triterpenoids are major sources of nutraceuticals that provide many health benefits to humans. Lupeol is one of the pentacyclic dietary triterpenoids commonly found in many fruits and vegetables, which is highly investigated for its pharmacological effect and benefit to human health...
Wanhong Liu, Huanyan Wang, Yu‐Pei Chen, Shunqin Zhu et al.
Previous publications reported that the artemisinin level was increased in Artemisia annua following a night-frost period. However, the molecular mechanism was not clear. In this study, we found that exogenous jasmonate (JA) effectively enhanced the freezing tolerance of A. annua. The JA biosyntheti...
Alok Kumar Paul, Anita Paul, Rownak Jahan, Khoshnur Jannat et al.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune disorder that can lead to disability conditions with swollen joints, pain, stiffness, cartilage degradation, and osteoporosis. Genetic, epigenetic, sex-specific factors, smoking, air pollution, food, oral hygiene, periodontitis, Prevotella, and imbalance ...
Yearul Kabir, Yoko Akasaka-Hashimoto, Kikue Kubota, Michio Komai
L. seeds from Bangladesh and India.
Md Rashedunnabi Akanda, Hyeon‐Hwa Nam, Weishun Tian, Anowarul Islam et al.
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a major inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has become a worldwide emergent disease. Veronica polita (VP) is a medicinal herb that has strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. In the present study, we studied the protective effect of VP on dextran sulfate sodium (...
Hemavathy Harikrishnan, Ibrahim Jantan, Akilandeshwari Alagan, Md. Areeful Haque
The causal and functional connection between inflammation and cancer has become a subject of much research interest. Modulation of cell signaling pathways, such as those involving mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs), nuclear factor kappa β (NF-κB), phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and protein kin...