impedance measurements Yi-Shao Liu, Padmapriya P. Banada, Shantanu Bhattacharya, Arun K. Bhunia, and Rashid Bashir Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA Mol...

Bartek Rajwa, Murugesan Venkatapathi, Kathy Ragheb, Padmapriya P. Banada, E. Daniel Hirleman, Todd Lary, and J. Paul Robinson Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories, Bindley Bioscience Center, 1203 W. State Street; School of Mechanical Engineering, 585 Purdue Mall; Molecular Food Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Food Science, 745 Agriculture Mall Drive, Purdue University, West Lafayette...

Usage of herbal medicine has been under so much attention for many years. They are gradually replacing synthetic drugs in pharmaceutical fields due to their fewer side effects. Nowadays, essential oils are widely used for the treatment of diseases as well as being applied as pesticide. In this study, 32 components of Zingiber essential oil were identified representing 97.42% of the extracted oi...

Nowadays, phytochemicals and antioxidants in plants are raising interest in consumers for their roles in the maintenance of human health. Phenolics and flavonoids are known for their health-promoting properties due to protective effects against cardiovascular disease, cancers and other disease. Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is one of the traditional folk medicinal plants and it is widely used in...

BACKGROUND Microbial cells growing in biofilms, play a huge role in the spread of antimicrobial resistance. In this study, biofilm formation of Klebsiella strains belonging to 3 different Klebsiella species (K. ornithinolytica, K. oxytoca and K. terrigena), cooccurences' effect on biofilm formation amount and anti-biofilm effects of Citrus limon and Zingiber officinale essential oils on biofilm...

in traditional medicine,some plants have been used as analysics.the aim of this investigation was to evaluate the analgesic effect of two plants,piper nigrum and Zingiber officinale that are used  traditionally to relieve headache,rheumatic arthritis,and toothache.for this purpose the methanolic extract of zingiber and piper nigrum,in different doses,were injected intraperitonealy to mice and t...