M. Obayed Ullah, M. F. Haque, Kaniz Fatima Urmi, Abu Hasanat Md. Zulfiker et al.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the antibacterial and cytotoxic activity of fourteen different edible vegetables methanolic extract from Bangladesh. METHODS: The antibacterial activity was evaluated using disc diffusion assay method against 12 bacteria (both gram positive and gram negative). The plant ext...
Mohammad Shoeb, Stephen M. MacManus, Marcel Jaspars, Jioji Trevidu et al.
Samir Kumar Sadhu, Emi Okuyama, Haruhiro Fujimoto, Masami Ishibashi et al.
As Cistus laurifolius has been used traditionally to treat inflammatory and rheumatic disorders, its leaves were tested for prostaglandin (PG) inhibitory and antioxidant activities. The leaf extract showed both activities, i.e., inhibitory effect at 300 microg/ml on PGE1- and E2-induced contractions...
Md. Sazzadul Bari, Labony Khandokar, Ehfazul Haque, Barbara Romano et al.
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE The genus Gynura (Compositae) includes around 46 species and is native to the tropical regions of Southeast Asia, Africa and Australia. Many species within this genus are used in ethnomedicine to treat various disorders including skin diseases, injuries, ulcers, wounds...
Rubal Chahal, Arun Nanda, Esra Küpeli Akkol, Eduardo Sobarzo‐Sánchez et al.
Ageratum conyzoides L. (Family—Asteraceae) is an annual aromatic invasive herb, mainly distributed over the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It owns a reputed history of indigenous remedial uses, including as a wound dressing, an antimicrobial, and mouthwash as well as in treatment of ...
Zineb Hakkou, Alexandre Maciuk, Véronique Leblais, Nour Elhouda Bouanani et al.
Background Inula viscosa L. (Asteraceae) is a medicinal plant widely used as a folk medicine in oriental Morocco, to treat hypertension. The antihypertensive effect of the methanolic extract obtained from I. viscosa leaves was evaluated in hypertensive L-NAME rats. Systolic blood pressure (SBP) was ...
Mohammad Shoeb, Marcel Jaspars, Stephen M. MacManus, Sezgin Çeli̇k et al.
An‐Ran Wang, Hongchuan Song, Hong‐Mei An, Qian Huang et al.
Chloranthus, a genus of the family Chloranthaceae, which is mainly distributed in eastern and southern Asia, has been used in Chinese folk medicine due to its antitumor, antifungal, and anti-inflammatory activities. This review compiles the research on isolation, structure elucidation, structural di...
Abu Shara Shamsur Rouf, Yukihiro Ozaki, Mohammad Mamun Ur Rashid, Rui Jing
Anti-inflammatory activity guided fractionation of the n-hexane soluble fraction of a 70% aqueous methanolic extract of the dried fruits of Forsythia suspensa afforded two new triterpenes. The structures of these compounds were elucidated as 3beta-acetyl-20,25-epoxydammarane-24alpha-ol (1) and 3beta...
H. Zidane, Elmiz M, Fatima Aouinti, Abdesselam Tahani et al.
In the present work, we studied the chemical composition of the essential oil of Cistus ladanifer and Cistus libanotis growing in Eastern Morocco. The essential oils were obtained by hydrodistillation and their chemical composition was analysed using gas chromatography- mass...
Maizura Osman, M. Mamunur Rashid, Md. Abdul Aziz, M Rowshahul Habib et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the antitumor activity of Manilkara zapota (M. zapota) L. stem bark against Ehrlich ascites carcinoma (EAC) in Swiss albino mice. METHODS: The in vivo antitumour activity of the ethyl acetate extract of stem bark of M. zapota L. (EASM) was evaluated at 50, 100 and 200 mg/kg bw...
Mohammad Shoeb, Stephen M. MacManus, Yashodharan Kumarasamy, Marcel Jaspars et al.
The reversed-phase preparative HPLC analysis of the methanol (MeOH) extract of the seeds of Centaurea americana afforded a dibenzylbutyrolactone lignan, 3''-O-caffeoyl arctiin (named americanin), together with five known lignans, arctiin, arctigenin, matairesinol, matairesinoside and lappaol A, and ...
Shaikh Jamal Uddin, Tracey L.H. Jason, Karren D. Beattie, I. Darren Grice et al.
Two new sesquiterpenes, (2R,3S)-sulfated pterosin C (1) and (2S,3S)-sulfated pterosin C (2), along with two known derivatives, (2S,3S)-pterosin C and (2R)-pterosin P, were isolated from a methanolic extract of the aerial parts of Acrostichum aureum. The structures of 1 and 2 were determined by the i...
Muhammad Jahangir Hossen, Jae Youl Cho, Daewon Kim
Ethnopharmacological relevance Xanthium strumarium L. (Asteraceae) has traditionally been used to treat bacterial infections, nasal sinusitis, urticaria, arthritis, chronic bronchitis and rhinitis, allergic rhinitis, edema, lumbago, and other ailments. However, the molecular mechanisms by which this...
Syed Masudur Rahman Dewan, Mohammad Nurul Amin, Tarek Adnan, Siraj Uddin et al.
Sourov Kuri, Md. Mustahsan Billah, S. M. Masud Rana, Zannatul Naim et al.
OBJECTIVE: To study the phytochemical and biological properties (antioxidant, anthelmintic and thrombolytic) of methanolic extracts of Enhydra fluctuans Lour., a plant belonging to the Asteraceae family. METHODS: The phytochemical evaluation was carried out by qualitative analysis. In vitro antioxid...
M. Giasuddin Ahmed, Md. Ashib Rahman, Md. Alimuzzaman, Jamil A. Shilpi
The crude extract of Mikania cordata (1 and 3 g/kg, p.o.) and deoxymikanolide (1) (10 mg/kg, p.o.) significantly inhibited acetic acid-induced writhing in mice. Three other sesquiterpene dilactones isolated from the same plant, namely mikanolide, dihydromikanolide and scandenolide, did not show sign...
Yunus Ahmed, Md. Saidur Rahman, Parul Akhtar, F. Islam et al.
General phytochemical screening of the leaves of Saurauia roxburghii (Actinidiaceae) revealed the presence of alkaloids, flavonoids, glycosides, O-glycosides, terpenoids, carbohydrates, steroids, reducing sugar, tannins, phlobatannins and saponin are present in this plant whereas cardiac glycosides ...
A. Nacer, Aurélie Bernard, Joël Boustié, Rachid Touzani et al.
Mohammad Shoeb, Stephen M. MacManus, Marcel Jaspars, Paul Kong Thoo Lin et al.
The antioxidant activity, general toxicity and cytotoxicity of the methanol extracts of Centaurea urvillei subs. armata and C. mucronifera have been assessed, respectively, by the DPPH assay, the brine shrimp lethality and the MTT cytotoxicity assays. The reversed-phase HPLC analysis of the methanol...