A binder holds powders together to form granules and also provides the cohesiveness required for binding of the granules under compression to form a tablet. Some natural excipients are currently available for pharmaceutical formulation. Aim of this study was to isolate the mucilage from different plants and to evaluate them as a binder. Here an effort was made to investigate the efficacy of muc...

introduction: for thousands of years, plants have been used as the main source of drug worldwide. recently, it has been found out that the plant artemisia annua and especially its derivatives such as artemether have anticancer properties. methods: in this study, the anticancer effect of artemether on mcf-7 breast cancer cell line was examined. mtt assay was used to assess the viability of cance...

Objective: Preliminary screening of phytochemicals is a valuable step, in the detection of the bioactive principles present in medicinal plants and subsequently may lead to drug discovery and development. In the present study, chief phytoconstituents of the six selected medicinal plants of different families were identified in order to relate their presence with bioactivities of the plants. Met...