Shallots (Allium cepa L.) can not only be used as a seasoning in cooking, but also medicine by the Indonesian people. The part of plants that are tubers. Shallot tubers contain secondary metabolites, phenol, flavonoids and terpenoids have antibacterial activity. purpose this research is to know antimicrobial activity n-hexane, ethyl acetate 1-butanol fraction shallot againts Staphylococcus aure...

BACKGROUND: Botanicals insecticides has remained the major weapons amongst tropical zones farmers to combat hexapods infestation of stored cowpea seeds in lieu of expensive synthetic chemical insecticides that have toxic effects on our environment. OBJECTIVES: Deterrence of cowpea bruchid oviposition and emergence on seeds treated with Cheese wood, Alstoni...

α-amylase inhibitors play a critical role in the control of diabetes and many of medicinal plants have been found to act as α-amylase inhibitors. swertia genus, belonging to the family gentianaceae, comprises different species most of which have been used in traditional medicine of several cultures as antidiabetic, anti-pyretic, analgesic, liver and gastrointestinal tonic. swertia longifolia bo...

CONTEXT Scyphiphora hydrophyllacea is a shrub mangrove plant of the family Rubiaceae and not yet been studied for anti-hepatocarcinogenic effects. OBJECTIVES We investigated possible in vitro anti-hepatocarcinogenic and antioxidant properties of S. hydrophyllacea. MATERIALS AND METHODS Dried leaves of S. hydrophyllacea were sequentially extracted into hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate, and ...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of Centella asiatica for incision and burn wounds are not fully understood. Here, we report the wound healing activities of sequential hexane, ethyl acetate, methanol, and water extracts of Centella asiatica in incision and partial-thickness burn wound models in rats. METHODS Male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 250-300 g were randomly divided into incision and burn wound...

While adult neurogenesis in mammals is mainly restricted to two telencephalic zones, in teleost fishes, neurogenesis has been observed in many brain areas. Hence, the medaka (Oryzias latipes) represents an excellent model to study neural stem cells (NSCs). In order to detect NSCs, we have relied on the fact that adult stem cells divide more slowly than quickly amplifying progenitor cells. By us...

Aim: To study the toxic effect of n-hexane on sex hormone levels, including its effect on ovarian sex hormone secretion levels and the underlying mechanism. 1) In vivo experiment: The mice were exposed to nhexane by static inhalation of doses of 0, 3.0, 15.1 or 75.8 ml/m once a day (4 hours), 7 days a week, for 5 consecutive weeks. After exposure, mouse sera were sampled to measure estradiol (E...