We demonstrate a sensitivity-tunable temperature SPR sensor based on side-opening grapefruit fiber. The opening sections of the fiber are coated with gold layer and then filled liquid mixture ethanol chloroform as sensing medium. variation will lead to different coupling efficiencies between core-guided mode plasmonic mode, resulting in change loss spectra that be detected. Simulation results i...

In the course of screening new antibiotics from soil microorganisms, we have isolated GERI-155 as a new naturally occurring antibiotic. GERI-155 shows anti-microbial activities against Gram-positive bacteria. In addition, two known compounds, chalcomycin1?2) and aldgamycin E3'4), were also detected in the same culture broth. This communication describes the isolation, physico-chemical propertie...

The antioxidant potential of crude methanol extract (CE) as well as chloroform (CF), ethyl acetate (EF) and n-butanol (NF) soluble fractions of Enhydra fluctuans Lour, which is widely used in indigenous system of medicine for different purposes, were studied. The antioxidant potential of extract/different fractions were evaluated using different in vitro antioxidant models. In addition, total a...

BACKGROUND The current work is an attempt to know about additional chemical profile of Artemisia macrocephala. Antioxidant activity is performed as the plant is reported to contain flavonoids, which have antioxidant activity in general. Relaxant activity of fractions of crude methanol extract is performed to know in which fraction(s) the relaxant constituents concentrate as we have already repo...

Scrophularia nodosa (figwort), an indigenous medicinal plant grows in moist and cultivated waste ground. It contains saponins, cardioactive glycosides, flavonoids, resin, sugar and organic acids. It is traditionally used for anti-inflammatory purpose and in skin disorders. It has diuretic and cardiac stimulant properties. The present studies were carried out on crude extract of Scrophularia nod...

The aim of this study was to investigate the in vitro anti-inflammatory activity of Malva sylvestris extract (MSE) and fractions in a co-culture model of cells infected by Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans. In addition, we evaluated the phytochemical content in the extract and fractions of M. sylvestris and demonstrated that polyphenols were the most frequent group in all samples studied. A...

Paeonins A and B, new monoterpene galactosides have been isolated from the chloroform-soluble fraction of the roots of Paeonia emodi and showed potent lipoxygenase inhibitory activity. The structures of 1 and 2 have been assigned on the basis of spectral analysis including one- and two-dimensional NMR techniques.

BACKGROUND Medicinal plants play great roles in the treatment of various infectious diseases. Rhamnus prinoides is one of the medicinal plants used traditionally for treatment of bacterial diseases. The antibacterial activity of the crude extract of the plant had been shown by a previous study, but this study was undertaken to further the claimed medicinal use of the plant by screening its solv...

Experimental liquid-liquid equilibria of the water-chloroform-acetic acid system were studied at temperature of 298.15 K. Complete phase diagrams were obtained by determining solubility and tie-line data. Data for the construction of ties-lines were determined by preparing mixtures of known mole fraction of components in the region of formation of two phases. Separation factors were evaluated f...

Mondia whitei root was evaluated to validate its anecdotal use and determine its possible mode of action in the management of erectile dysfunction. Rabbits were administered with daily oral doses of 100-400 mg kg(-1) crude ethanolic extract of M. whitei and sildenafil (50 mg kg(-1)) as positive control for 6 weeks. Cavernosal tissue NOS activity and levels of NO and cGMP, and NOS and PDE protei...