The components of Magnolia officinalis have well known to act anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidative and neuroprotective activities. These efficacies have been sold many products as nutritional supplement extracted from bark of Magnolia officinalis. Thus, to assess and compare neuroprotective effect in the nutritional supplement (Magnolia Extract(TM), Health Freedom Nutrition LLC, USA) and our ethan...

Aqueous and ethanol extracts of cassia didymobotraya were investigated for purgative and anit-inflammatory activities in albino mice and rats, respectively at a dose of 100 mg/kg body weight. Anti-inflammatory activity was screened by 1% carageenan induced paw edema method and purgative activity was screened by the method described by Akah etal, Both the extracts exhibited significant purgative...

Background: Ethno-botanical information shows that Eremomastax speciosa is used in the traditional management of various stomach complaints including gastro-duodenal ulcers. Materials and Methods: In this study, we tested the cytoprotective potential of the whole plant methanol extract (100-200 mg/kg, p.o), against HCl/ethanol, absolute ethanol, cold/restraint stress rats, and pylorus legated r...

Some studies showed that ceplukan (Physalis angulata Linn) have cytotoxic effects toward HeLa (cervical cancer), KB (Nasopharyngeal), Colo 205 (colon), Calu (Lung) and MCF-7 cells in vitro. This plant has cytotoxic effects toward rat P388 lymphocytic leukemia in vivo. One of the mechanisms of cytotoxicity is the inhibition of Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) pathway. The purpose of this study was to de...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to examine the quality and storage characteristics of yogurt containing antifungal-active lactic acid bacteria (ALH, Lacobacillus sakei ALI033) isolated from kimchi and cinnamon ethanol extract. The starter was used for culture inoculation (1.0 % commercial starter culture YF-L812 and ALH). RESULTS The antifungal activity of cinnamon extracts was observed i...

The antifungal activity of aqueous, petroleum ether, benzene, chloroform, methanol and ethanol extracts and alkaloid extract of Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. leaves (Mimosaceae) was evaluated for antifungal activity by poisoned food technique against Alternaria alternata a causal organism of brown spot of tobacco. Aqueous extract recorded highly significant antifungal activity at 24% concentrati...

BACKGROUND Hoodia gordonii products are widely commercialized for anti-obesity purposes; however, minimal research is available on the other health properties demonstrated by this popular herbal plant. METHODS H. gordonii crude extracts (ethanol and ethyl acetate) were assayed for in vitro anti-HIV-1 protease (PR), reverse transcriptase (RT) and integrase activity. The 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhy...

adjuvant induced arthritis is a chronic crippling, skeleton-muscular disorder having nearest approximation to human rheumatoid arthritis for which there is currently no medicine available effecting a permanent cure. even modern drugs used for the amelioration of the symptoms, offer only temporary relief and also produce severe side effects. in the indigenous system of medicine, wood of premna s...

antioxidant active packaging is one of the active packaging that prevents of lipid oxidation by releasing antioxidant during storage of food. in recent years the use of natural antioxidant instead of the synthetic variety in these packaging has been considered. the aim of this study was evaluating the performance of polymeric film coated with natural antioxidant (rosemary extract) to prevent li...

A recombinant strain of Escherichia coli FBWHR was used for ethanol fermentation from hot-water sugar maple wood extract hydrolyzate in batch experiments. Kinetic studies of cell growth, sugar utilization and ethanol production were investigated at different initial total sugar concentrations of wood extract hydrolyzate. The highest ethanol concentration of 24.05 g/L was obtained using an initi...