Muhammad Torequl Islam, Marcus Vinícius Oliveira Barros de Alencar, Kátia da Conceição Machado, Keylla da Conceição Machado et al.
This study aims to review phytol (PYT), through published articles, periodicals, magazines and patents, which were retrieved from the PM, SD, WS, SP; DII, WIPO, CIPO, USPTO and INPI databases. Among the 149 articles and 62 patents, 27.52% articles and 87.09% patients were found on the searched topic...
Chandan Kumar Sarkar, Milon Mondal, Muhammad Torequl Islam, Miquel Martorell et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented challenge for the researchers to offer safe, tolerable, and effective treatment strategies for its causative agent known as SARS-CoV-2. With the rapid evolution of the pandemic, even the off-label use of existing drugs has been restricted by limited ...
Muhammad Torequl Islam, Ana Maria Oliveira Ferreira da Mata, Raí Pablo Sousa de Aguiar, Márcia Fernanda Correia Jardim Paz et al.
Among all plant derivates, essential oils (EOs) have gained the attention of many scientists. Diterpenes, a family of components present in some EO, are becoming a milestone in the EOs world. The goal of this review is to describe a scenario of diterpenes taking into health-consumption deportment. P...
Dipta Dey, Rajib Hossain, Partha Biswas, Priyanka Paul et al.
SARS-CoV-2 is the foremost culprit of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (nCoV-19 and/or simply COVID-19) and poses a threat to the continued life of humans on the planet and create pandemic issue globally. The 3-chymotrypsin-like protease (M^PRO or 3CL^PRO) is the crucial protease enzyme of SARS-Co...
Muhammad Torequl Islam, Cristina Quispe, Md. Amirul Islam, Eunüs S. Ali et al.
Nerol, a monoterpene is evident to possess diverse biological activities, including antioxidant, anti-microbial, anti-spasmodic, anthelmintic, and anti-arrhythmias. This study aims to evaluate its hepatoprotective effect against paracetamol-induced liver toxicity in a rat model. Five groups of rats ...
Muhammad Torequl Islam, Cristina Quispe, Jesús Herrera‐Bravo, Chandan Kumar Sarkar et al.
Dengue remains one of the most serious and widespread mosquito‐borne viral infections in human beings, with serious health problems or even death. About 50 to 100 million people are newly infected annually, with almost 2.5 billion people living at risk and resulting in 20,000 deaths. Dengue virus in...
Anderson Wilbur Lopes Andrade, Keylla da Conceição Machado, Kátia da Conceição Machado, Daiana Dias Ribeiro Figueiredo et al.
PURPOSE: Free radicals are considered as the causative agents of a variety of acute and chronic pathologies. Natural antioxidants have drawn attention of the researchers in recent years for their ability to scavenge free radicals with minimal or even no side effects. This study evaluates the antioxi...
Muhammad Torequl Islam
As therapeutic tools, diterpenes and their derivatives have gained much attention of the medicinal scientists nowadays. It is due to their pledging and important biological activities. This review congregates the anticancer diterpenes. For this, a search was made with selected keywords in PubMed, Sc...
Chandan Kumar Sarkar, Cristina Quispe, Sarmin Jamaddar, Rajib Hossain et al.
Ginkgolide A is a highly active platelet activating factor antagonist cage molecule which was isolated from the leaves of the Ginkgo biloba L. It is known for its inflammatory and immunological potentials. This review aims to sketch a current scenario on its therapeutic activities on the basis of sc...
Daniela Călina, Chandan Kumar Sarkar, Andreea Letiția Arsene, Bahare Salehi et al.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in a modern era, there is a global consensus on the need for the rapid development of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 for effective and sustainable control. Developing these vaccines is fundamental to public health. This urgent need is supported by the scientific explosion ...
Muhammad Torequl Islam, Seyed Abdulmajid Ayatollahi, S. M. Neamul Kabir Zihad, Nazifa Sifat et al.
Phytol (PHY) is an acyclic natural diterpene alcohol and a chlorophyll constituent that exhibits several pharmacological effects, such as anticancer, antioxidant, and antimicrobial. Here, we aimed to assess the PHY anti-inflammatory effect in vitro and in vivo, and to deepen knowledge on the possibl...
Muhammad Torequl Islam
Recently, the use of plant-derived medicines is increasing interest in the prevention and treatment of a variety of disorders including metabolic syndromes. Metabolic syndrome is one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and incidence of mortality worldwide. Scientific evidenc...
Muhammad Torequl Islam, Md. Nasiruddin, Ishaq Khan, S. Mishra et al.
Coronaviruses (CoVs) are enveloped positive-sense RNA viruses with an unusually large RNA genome, and a unique replication strategy, and are characterized by club-like spikes that project from their surface. An outbreak of a novel coronavirus 2019 (nCoV-2019) infection has posed significant threat t...
Md. Shimul Bhuia, Tawhida Islam, Md. Rokonuzzman, Abdullah Al Shamsh Prottay et al.
The current study is designed to evaluate the antiemetic effect of the diterpenoid phytol (PHY) using in vivo and in silico studies. For this, emesis was induced in 4-day-old chicks by the oral administration of copper sulfate (CuSO 4 .5H 2 O) at 50 mg/kg. To see the possible antiemetic mechanism of...
Muhammad Torequl Islam, Jabed Hasan, H. M. Shadid Hossain Snigdha, Eunüs S. Ali et al.
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Piper chaba Hunter, called Chui Jhal or Choi Jhal, is commonly used as a culinary (spice) herb in India and Bangladesh. It exhibits numerous important biological activities and has been widely used in traditional medicine. AIM OF THE STUDY This review focuses on the ch...