Md. Shafiullah Shajib, Saleha Akter, Tajnin Ahmed, Mohammad Zafar Imam
Fruits of Phoenix sylvestris Roxb. (Arecaceae) are used to treat back pain, toothache, headache, arthritis, nervous debility and as sedative. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antinociceptive and neuropharmacological activities of methanol extract of P. sylvestris fruit pulp (MEPS). The anti...
Mahia Khandaker, Saleha Akter, Mohammad Zafar Imam
Trichosanthes dioica Roxb. is a climber of the Cucurbitaceae family mainly found in tropical Asia. The fruit is widely consumed as a vegetable and different parts of this plant are used in the traditional medicine to treat various types of human ailments. In this review, we critically analyzed and p...
Mohammad Zafar Imam, Nazmun Nahar, Saleha Akter, Md. Sohel Rana
Ethnopharmacological relevance Impatiens balsamina Linn. (Balsaminaceae), an annual herb locally called "Dopati", is cultivated as an ornamental garden plant in Bangladesh. Flowers of the plant are used in folk medicine to treat lumbago, neuralgia, burns and scalds. Aim of the study This study evalu...
Md. Al Mamun, Md. Amzad Hossaın, Joya Saha, Saleha Khan et al.
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of dietary Spirulina platensis supplementation on the growth and immunity of Mystus cavasius. Fish were fed on the experimental diets, where the fish meal was replaced with S. platensis meal at 0%, 2.5%, 5.0%, 7.5%, and 10% levels, respectively. T...
Mohammad Zafar Imam, Shamima Sultana, Saleha Akter
CONTEXT: Barringtonia acutangula (L.) Gaertn. (Lecythidaceae) has been used in folk medicine in the treatment of arthralgia, chest pain, dysmenorrhea, inflammation, hemorrhoids, diarrhea, and also in psychological disorders. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the antinociceptive, antidiarrheal, and neurophar...
Mohammad Meshbahur Rahman, Mohammad Hamiduzzaman, Mst. Saleha Akter, Zaki Farhana et al.
BACKGROUND: Frailty is associated with healthy ageing, and it has been identified as a means of measuring older adults' physio-psychosocial health. We know about the ageing trends and common diseases of older adults living in South Asia, but literature to date does not widely feature their health st...
Nazia Hoque, Mohammad Zafar Imam, Saleha Akter, Jamiuddin Ahmed et al.
The present study was carried out to investigate the antioxidant and antidiabetic potential of methanolic extract of Glinus oppositifolius leaves. The antioxidant potential was examined by DPPH radical scavenging assay, nitric oxide (NO) scavenging assay, determination of total flavonoid content and...
S. Datta, Mohammad Abbas Uddin, KS Afreen, Saleha Akter et al.
There is an increasing interest in adding value to textiles by the use of natural products. Many of the plant materials, from which natural dyes are obtained, found to have some medicinal values. In the current study, dyeing materials were prepared from pomegranate (Punica granatum), wild mangosteen...
Sunzida Sultana, Saleha Khan, Nowrin Akter Shaika, Sadia Momota Hena et al.
A diverse array of aquatic ecosystems are inhabited by the euglenophytes, a group of autotrophic and eukaryotic organisms. In inland waterbodies, the red bloom is caused by a rapid development or accumulation of euglenophytes. Recent studies have designated euglenophytes as bioindicator of organic p...
Sunzida Sultana, Sadiqul Awal, Nowrin Akter Shaika, Saleha Khan
Cyanobacteria can form intense and sometimes toxic blooms in all kinds of aquatic ecosystems, typified as cyanobacterial bloom. Cyanobacterial blooms can create a range of harmful toxins, which may disturb water sources, successively posing serious health threat to living organisms, and at this stag...
Gowranga Kumar Paul, Mohammad Meshbahur Rahman, Mohammad Hamiduzzaman, Zaki Farhana et al.
1. Department of Statistics, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail-1902, Bangladesh; 2. Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka-1230, Bangladesh; 3. Flinders University Rural Health SA, College of Medicine & Public Health, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia;...
Riaz Uddin, Naz Hasan Huda, Yeakuty Marzan Jhanker, Tasbira Jesmeen et al.
BACKGROUND: Calcium and vitamin D are two important micronutrients required for maintaining proper bone health. Previous works intended to determine the status of these micronutrients in local population have reported that the people in Bangladesh are at high risk of calcium insufficiency and hypovi...
Nowrin Akter Shaika, Eman Alhomaidi, Md. Milon Sarker, Abdullah An Nur et al.
A winter bloom event of Trichodesmium erythraeum was monitored for the first time in the southeastern coastal parts of Bangladesh along the Bay of Bengal. This study presents the brownish to light pinkish bloom that appeared in mid-winter and disappeared abruptly during spring. Heavy blooms of T. er...
Saleha Akter, Amit Sarker, Md. Sanowar Hossain
Punica granatum (Family: Punicaceae) is a widely consumed fruit in Bangladesh locally known as Anar or Bedana. Traditionally the plant is used to treat diarrhoea, dysentery, hemorrhage, tuberculosis and chronic periodontitis. The present study was undertaken in order to justify and authenticate the ...
Saleha Akter, Mohammad Zafar Imam
The present study was designed to investigate the antioxidant, antidiarrhoeal and cytotoxic properties of the aerial parts of Trichosanthes dioica. The petroleum ether, ethyl acetate, methanol and water extracts were tested for antioxidant activity using nitric oxide scavenging assay, total antioxid...