Moringa oleifera is a multipurpose medicinal food of dietary interest known to have health beneficial effects, and has been used as a possible ayurvedic medicine. This study was carried out to investigate the effects of H2O2 induced apoptosis, that measure cellular proliferation, viability, and morphological changes and to investigate if the dietary leaf extract could inhibit the oxidative stre...

Aqueous extract of Ricinus communis and Lantana camara contains substances that have allelopathic potential on maize (Zea mays L.). The present study showed that different concentrations of the water soluble leaf extracts of R. communis and L. camara inhibit the germination and growth of maize. These extracts also affect activity of some enzymes. Leaf aqueous extracts of both the plants were ma...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES In view of the recently increased interest in developing plant origin insecticides as an alternative to chemical insecticide, this study was undertaken to assess the larvicidal and ovicidal potential of the crude hexane, benzene, chloroform, ethyl acetate and methanol solvent extracts from the medicinal plant Pithecellobium dulce against the mosquito vectors, Anopheles s...

The effects of aqueous and ethanolic leaf extracts of Mentha Longifolia on morphine dependence were examined in mice. Dependence was induced using subcutaneous injections of morphine daily for 3 days. On day 4, the last dose of morphine was injected 2 h perior the intraperitoneal injection of naloxone. The number of episods of jumping during 30 minutes after injection of naloxane was considered...

The Polygonum orientale L. extracts were investigated for antibacterial activity against Clavibater michiganense subsp. sepedonicum (Spieckermann & Kotthoff) Davis et al., the causal agent of a serious disease called bacterial ring rot of potato. The results showed that the leaf extracts of P. orientale had significantly (p<0.05) greater antibacterial activity against C. michiganense subsp. sep...

Calocedrus formosana (Florin) bark acetone/ethylacetate extracts are known to exert an antitumor effect on some human cancer cell lines, but the mechanism is yet to be defined. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of Florin leaf methanol extracts on the growth and apoptosis of human bladder cancer cell lines. MTT (3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) assay...

Most of the present anticancer drugs are highly cytotoxic and focus mainly on killing tumor cells rather than slowing the progress of cancer metastasis. Evidence has been reported that bridges the mechanisms of inflammation and tumor invasion. Therefore, we evaluated the potency in cancer metastasis chemoprevention of compounds and a coumarin extracted from Murraya exotica, which is known for i...

BACKGROUND Centaurea americana, Krameria ramosissima, Juglans mollis and Turnera diffusa are used by traditional healers in the northeastern region of Mexico to protect against liver damage. However, the hepatoprotective properties of these plants have not been investigated scientifically. This study reports on the protective effects of these plants using an in vitro assay. MATERIAL AND METHO...

The plant Coldenia procumbens Linn. is used commonly in Indian system of medicine for various ailments. The present paper deals with detailed pharmacognosy of the leaf of coldenia procumbens Linn. and includes its Macro/Micro morphological (vein islet, vein termination numbers and stomatal index) anatomical characters, Physico chemical standards such as ash values, extractive values, crude fibr...

Techniques are described for the semi-preparative isolation of sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol from plant leaf tissue lipid extracts and the resolution and analysis of component molecular species. Sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol was resolved from phospholipids in a polar lipid fraction by isocratic normal phase HPLC with detection at 208 nm. The mobile phase was composed of heptane-isopropanol-0.00...