Umakanta Sarker, Md. Nazmul Hossain, Md. Asif Iqbal, Shinya Oba
Four selected advance lines of salt-tolerant vegetable amaranth were evaluated for proximate, nutraceuticals, pigments, phytochemicals, and antioxidants components antioxidants activity in completely randomized block design (RCBD) design in three replicates. Salt-tolerant vegetable amaranth containe...
Shahdat Hossain, Michio Hashimoto, Emran Kabir Choudhury, Nuhu Alam et al.
1. The effects of edible oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus on plasma and liver lipid profiles and on the plasma total anti-oxidant status were estimated in hyper- and normocholesterolaemic Long Evans rats. 2. The feeding of 5% powder of the fruiting bodies of P. ostreatus mushrooms to hypercholest...
Kishor Mazumder, Afia Nabila, Asma Aktar, Asgar Farahnaky
The aim of this present investigation was to analyze bioactive compounds, as well as demonstrate the antioxidant activities of nine cultivars of Australian lupin species accompanied by observing the effect of domestic heat processing on their antioxidant activities adopting in vivo and in vitro appr...
Nandita Das, Md. Ekramul Islam, Nusrat Jahan, Mohammad Saiful Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Antioxidant compounds like phenols and flavonoids scavenge free radicals and thus inhibit the oxidative mechanisms that lead to control degenerative and other diseases. The aim of this study was to investigate the antioxidant activity in vitro, total phenolic and flavonoid contents in et...
Md. Nazmul Hossain, Umakanta Sarker, Md. Sharif Raihan, Asma A. Al‐Huqail et al.
This is the first attempt to evaluate the impact of four salinity levels on the color parameters, pigments, polyphenols, flavonoids, and antioxidant capacities of four promising A. lividus genotypes. The color parameters, such as the yellowness/blueness (b*) and the chroma (C*); the antioxidant comp...
Mohammad Khairul Alam Sobuj, Md. Ariful Islam, Md. Shoebul Islam, Md. Mohidul Islam et al.
Seaweeds are now recognized as a treasure of bioactive compounds. However, the bioactivity of seaweed originating in Bangladesh is still unexplored. So, this study was designed to explore the secondary metabolites and antioxidant activities of solvent extracts of Padina tetrastromatica and Gracilari...
Xinda Zou, Amrit BK, Tareq Abu‐Izneid, Ahsan Aziz et al.
Tobacco is grown in large quantities worldwide as a widely distributed commercial crop. From the harvest of the field to the process into the final product, a series of procedures generate enormous amount of waste materials that are rarely recycled. In recent years, numerous potential bioactive comp...
Kaisun Nesa Lesa, Mayeen Uddin Khandaker, Mohammad Rashed Iqbal Faruque, Rohit Sharma et al.
Pleurotus ostreatus is the second cultivated and most popular edible mushroom after Agaricus bisporus worldwide. As dietary supplements, nutraceuticals like Pleurotus ostreatus that go beyond the usual health benefits of mushrooms are becoming more popular. The objective of this study is to put toge...
Yead Morshed Nibir, Ahmed Faisal Sumit, Anwarul Azim Akhand, Nazmul Ahsan et al.
Objective: To determine the total polyphenol content, antioxidant activity and antibacterial properties of the extracts of different Bangladeshi tea varieties such as flowery broken orange pekoe, broken orange pekoe, red dust and green tea. Methods: Total phenolic and flavonoid contents were determi...
Qian Xu, Yanyan Shen, Haifeng Wang, Niping Zhang et al.
Response surface methodology (RSM) based on a central composite design (CCD) was applied to optimise the extraction conditions for flavonoids from fructus sophorae with advantages in terms of resisting flavonoids during the whole process and maximising of extraction yield. Three aglycon forms of the...
Mohammad Khairul Alam, Ziaul H. Rana, Sheikh Nazrul Islam, Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman
Wild edible plants are recently recognized as an important source of acquiring macro and micro nutrients beneficial for human health. Hence, the present study was undertaken to assess the antidiabetic and antioxidant potentials, polyphenolic profile, - as well as the ascorbic acid, proximate and min...
Md Sohel, Habiba Sultana, Tayeba Sultana, Md. Al Amin et al.
BACKGROUND: Cancer has become a significant concern in the medical sector with increasing disease complexity. Although some available conventional treatments are still a blessing for cancer patients, short-and long-term adverse effects and poor efficiency make it more difficult to treat cancer patie...
Mohammad Amzad Hossain, Zhari Ismail, Atiqur Rahman, Sun Chul Kang
The hydrodistilled essential leaves and stems oils of Orthosiphon stamineus Benth were analysed by GC-MS/MS. Sixty nine compounds representing 97.6 and 97.4% of the total leaves and stems oils, respectively were identified, of which β-caryophyllene (24.0 and 35.1%), α-humulene (14.2 and 18.4%), β-el...
Sharif M. Al‐Reza, Atiqur Rahman, Munavvar Abdul Sattar, M. Oliur Rahman et al.
The chemical composition of the hydro-distilled essential oil from leaves of Curcuma aromatica Salisb. was analysed by GC-MS. Twenty-three compounds representing 94.29% of the total oil were identified. The antioxidant activities of the oil and various extracts of C. aromatica were evaluated by usin...
Liaquat Ali, Abul Azed Khan, Zahid Hassan, M Mosihuzzaman et al.
The whole powder of Trigonella foenum graecum seeds and its extracts were tested for their hypoglycemic effect on normal and diabetic model rats. The powder, its methanol extract, and the residue remaining after methanol extraction had significant hypoglycemic effects when fed simultaneously with gl...
Moni Rani Saha, Md Ashraful Alam, Raushanara Akter, Rumana Jahangir
Antioxidant activity of the methanol extract of Ixora coccinea L. was determined by DPPH free radical scavenging assay, reducing power and total antioxidant capacity using phosphomolybdenum method. Preliminary phytochemical screening revealed that the extract of the flower of I. coccinea possesses f...
Mohammad Gias Uddin
The aim of the study was to evaluate the performance of dyes extracted from mango leaves in silk dyeing. Extraction medium was optimized by extracting dyes from fixed quantity of crushed leaves under pH values from 3 to 12. The maximum relative color strength of the extracted dye liquor was found to...
Md. Anowar Hossain, Md. Masud Rana, Yoshinobu Kimura, Hairul Azman Roslan
As a part of the study to explore the possible strategy for enhancing the shelf life of mango fruits, we investigated the changes in biochemical parameters and activities of ripening associated enzymes of Ashwina hybrid mangoes at 4-day regular intervals during storage at -10°C, 4°C, and 30 ± 1°C. T...
Meryem Tourabi, Amira Metouekel, Asmae El Ghouizi, Mohamed Jeddi et al.
Abstract The current work attempts to explore the influence of three extraction solvents on phytochemical composition, content of polyphenols, antioxidant potential, and antibacterial capacity of hydroethanolic, acetonic, and aqueous extracts from Moroccan Mentha longifolia leaves. To achieve this g...
GT McAnlis, Jane McEneny, J. N. Pearce, Ian Young
Objective To investigate the in vivo and in vitro effects of black tea on the oxidative modification of low density lipoprotein (LDL). Design The antioxidant activity of the tea was studied in vitro by measuring the resistance of the LDL to oxidative modification in the presence of copper. The effec...