Md. Mominur Rahman, Md. Rezaul Islam, Sheikh Shohag, Md. Emon Hossain et al.
Obesity and diabetes are the most demanding health problems today, and their prevalence, as well as comorbidities, is on the rise all over the world. As time goes on, both are becoming big issues that have a big impact on people's lives. Diabetes is a metabolic and endocrine illness set apart by hyp...
Nadia Alam, Monzur Hossain, Md. Abdul Mottalib, Siti Amrah Sulaiman et al.
BACKGROUND: Withania somnifera, also known as ashwagandha, is an important herb in ayurvedic and indigenous medical systems. The present study was designed to evaluate the antioxidant and antibacterial activities of an 80% aqueous methanolic extract of W. somnifera roots (WSREt), fruits (WSFEt) and ...
Muhammad Ali Khan, Aziz Abdur Rahman, Md. Shafiqul Islam, Proma Khandokhar et al.
BACKGROUND: Antioxidants play an important role to protect damage caused by oxidative stress (OS). Plants having phenolic contents are reported to possess antioxidant properties. The present study was designed to investigate the antioxidant properties and phenolic contents (total phenols, flavonoids...
Emrul Kayesh, Lingfei Shangguan, Nicholas Kibet Korir, Xin Sun et al.
Anowarul Islam, Md Sadikul Islam, Md Khalesur Rahman, Md. Nazim Uddin et al.
Eriodictyol is a flavonoid in the flavanones subclass. It is abundantly present in a wide range of medicinal plants, citrus fruits, and vegetables that are considered to have potential health importance. Having the considerable medicinal properties, eriodictyol has been predicted to clarify the mode...
Prawej Ansari, Samara T. Choudhury, Véronique Seidel, Akib Bin Rahman et al.
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder that is spreading alarmingly around the globe. Type-2 DM (T2DM) is characterized by low-grade inflammation and insulin resistance and is closely linked to obesity. T2DM is mainly controlled by lifestyle/dietary changes and oral antidiabetic drugs but re...
Umakanta Sarker, Shinya Oba
Abstract Four selected advance lines of drought-tolerant leafy vegetable amaranth were characterized for phenolic profiles, vitamins, and antioxidant activities. The selected advance lines exhibited differences in terms of genotypes with remarkable phenols, vitamins, flavonoids content, and potentia...
Saikat Mitra, Mashia Subha Lami, Tanvir Mahtab Uddin, Rajib Das et al.
Plant-based phytochemicals are now being used to treat plenty of physiological diseases. Herbal drugs have gained popularity in recent years because of their strength, purity, and cheap cost-effectiveness. Citrus fruits contain significant amounts of flavanones, which falls to the category of polyph...
M R Saha, SMR Hasan, Raushanara Akter, M. Moazzem Hossain et al.
In the present study, antioxidant potential of the methanol extract of the leaves of Mimusops elengi Linn. was evaluated by using 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) scavenging assay, reducing power and total antioxidant capacity. The extract showed significant activities in all antioxidant assays...
Mahfuza khatoon, Md. Ekramul Islam, Md. Rafikul Islam, Aziz Abdur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Research on natural products has gained a wide popularity due to the potential of discovering active compounds. The antioxidant properties contained in plants have been proposed as one of the mechanisms for the observed beneficial effect. Therefore, the present study investigated the ant...
Mohammed Moniruzzaman, Yung-An Chua, Pasupuleti Visweswara Rao, Mohammad Nurul Islam Hawlader et al.
The aim of the present study was to characterize the phenolic acids, flavonoids, and antioxidant properties of monofloral honey collected from five different districts in Bangladesh. A new high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipped with a UV detector method was developed for the identifi...
Jesmin Akter, Md. Amzad Hossain, Kensaku Takara, Md. Zahorul Islam et al.
There are >80 species of turmeric (Curcuma spp.) and some species have multiple varieties, for example, Curcuma longa (C. longa) has 70 varieties. They could be different in their chemical properties and biological activities. Therefore, we compared antioxidant activity, total phenolic and flavonoid...
Jawadul Misir, Fatema Hossain Brishti, Monjurul Hoque
New technological advances in antimicrobial edible coatings for food may hold promise in extending shelf life, reducing packaging layers, meeting food safety and quality requirements. Emerging research shows polysaccharides, bacteriocins, essential oils, enzymes, proteins and lipids are all natural ...
Saikat Mitra, Abu Montakim Tareq, Rajib Das, Talha Bin Emran et al.
Polyphenols are natural compounds and the most plentiful with synergistic properties contributing to potential health benefits. This review describes the synergistic interactions of polyphenolic compounds; as yet, no literature review has been undertaken to consider the experimental evidence of syne...
Nadia Alam, Monzur Hossain, Md. Ibrahim Khalil, Mohammed Moniruzzaman et al.
BACKGROUND: Withania somnifera is an important medicinal plant traditionally used in the treatment of many diseases. The present study was carried out to characterize the phenolic acids, flavonoids and 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radical (DPPH) scavenging activities in methanolic extracts of W. so...
S. S. Hasan, Mokarram Hossain, Raushanara Akter, Mariam Jamila et al.
Hydromethanol extracts of fifteen Bangladeshi medicinal plants, traditionally used in different ailments, were evaluated for antioxidant potential using DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl) radical scavenging assay. Among the extractsCocos nucifera, Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Punica granatum and Syzy...
Mouluda Sohany, Intan Syafinaz Mohamed Amin Tawakkal, Siti Hajar Ariffin, Nor Nadiah Abdul Karim Shah et al.
In food packaging, smart indicator films based on natural resources have greatly attracted researchers to minimize the environmental issues as well as to satisfy consumer preferences for food safety. In this research, pH-sensitive films were prepared using purple-fleshed sweet potato starch (SPS) an...
Prawej Ansari, Samia Akther, J. M. A. Hannan, Véronique Seidel et al.
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic complication that affects people of all ages. The increased prevalence of diabetes worldwide has led to the development of several synthetic drugs to tackle this health problem. Such drugs, although effective as antihyperglycemic agents, are accompanied by various side...
Md Asiful Islam, Ibrahim Khalil, Md. Nazmul Islam, Mohammed Moniruzzaman et al.
BACKGROUND: There is no available information on physicochemical and antioxidant properties on Bangladeshi honey. We investigated five different monofloral and three different multifloral honey samples collected from different parts of Bangladesh. METHODS: The levels of phenolics, flavonoids, ascorb...
Juhaer Anjum, Saikat Mitra, Rajib Das, Roksana Alam et al.
Abnormalities in the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway are a key contributor to the carcinogenesis process and have therefore been implicated in several aspects of tumorigenesis, including cell differentiation, proliferation, invasion, angiogenesis, apoptosis, and metastasis....