Some common plants in India, which are also considered as weeds, proved to confer strong antimicrobial activity against many human pathogens. They are rich in a wide variety of secondary metabolites, viz. tannins, terpenoids, alkaloids, flavonoids, phenols and quinines. In this study, some urinary tract infecting human pathogenic strains and their non pathogenic laboratory strains collected fro...

Over the last two centuries the circumscription of the large, pan-tropical genus Clerodendrum (Lamiaceae) has changed frequently, as different authorities have added or removed taxa on the basis of various morphological characters. With the development of molecular methods for systematic research the process of circumscribing taxa has become increasingly analytical. When morphology signals the ...

In the human body, oxidative stress imposed due to increase in concentration of free radicals such as reactive oxygen species (ROS) contributes initiation and progression different diseases. The synthetic antioxidants have low efficacy with side effects, for that plant-derived natural antioxidant can prevent by reducing risk having these present study, methanolic extracts two traditionally used...

PURPOSE In this study, three important medicinal plants (Enhydra fluctuans Lour, Clerodendrum viscosum Vent and Andrographis peniculata Wall) of Bangladesh were investigated to analyze their antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities against some pathogenic microorganisms and Artemia salina (brine shrimp nauplii). METHODS The coarse powder material of leaves of each plant was extracted separately...

Chandrashekar. R* and S.N. Rao * & Dept of Pharmacology, Yenepoya Medical College, Yenepoya University, Derlakatte, Mangalore 575018. ABSTRACT : The aim of the study was to investigate the chronic peripheral analgesic activity of Ethanolic Extract of the leaves of Clerodendrum viscosum (EECV) by acetic acid induced writhing reflex test in mice and chronic central analgesic activity of EECV by t...

Purpose: To investigate potential analgesic and antioxidant properties in the ethanolic root extract of Clerodendrum viscosum Vent. Methods: Phytochemical analysis of the ethanolic root extract was evaluated using standard procedure. Analgesic activity test was carried out by acetic acid induced writhing in mice model. The antioxidant property of the plant extract was assessed by DPPH (1, 1-dip...