The present study highlights the Bio activities and Pharmacology of Piper nigrum L. (Black Pepper). L is commonly known as Kali Mirch, Pippali, Milagu Peppercorn, White pepper, Green Black Madagascar pepper longum plant a deciduous slender aromatic climber. major source bioactive constituents in black fruits. It contains pungent alkaloid piperine (1-peperoyl piperidine) which to possess pharmac...

from august to october 1996, three different statistical communities of spices, including 37, 41, 26 samples for each one of black pepper, turmeric and sumac, respectively, were taken randomly from 35 various packaged labels and 2 production centres, in the west of tehran, and examine for assessing fungi and bacterial contamination by using ec, vrbl agar lst, brilliant green media, and compare ...

NIR-FT-Raman as well as ATR-IR and NIR spectroscopy in combination with efficient chemometric algorithms was applied for rapid determination of piperine in black and white ground pepper and green whole pepper berries as well as pepper oleoresins. Most of the well-resolved Raman signals detected in the spectra of pepper and the related oleoresins can be assigned to piperine, which is known to be...

This study investigated the effects of an ethanol extract of black pepper and its constituent, piperine, on odorant-induced signal transduction in non-chemosensory cells. An ethanol extract of black pepper decreased eugenol-induced cAMP and calcium levels in preadipocyte 3T3-L1 cells with no toxicity. Phosphorylation of CREB (cAMP response element-binding protein) was down-regulated by the blac...

Black pepper (Piper nigrum L.), a tropical spice crop of global acclaim, is susceptible to Phytophthora capsici, an oomycete pathogen which causes the highly destructive foot rot disease. A systematic understanding of this phytopathosystem has not been possible owing to lack of genome or proteome information. In this study, we explain an integrated transcriptome-assisted label-free quantitative...

Small RNAs derived from transfer RNAs were recently assigned as potential gene regulatory candidates for various stress responses in eukaryotes. In this study, we report on the cloning and identification of tRNA derived small RNAs from black pepper plants in response to the infection of the quick wilt pathogen, Phytophthora capsici. 5'tRFs cloned from black pepper were validated as highly expre...

Piperine, is the major active principal of black pepper. In traditional medicine, black pepper has been used as an analgesic, anti-inflammatory agent and in the treatment of epilepsy. This study was conducted to evaluate the in vivo analgesic and anticonvulsant effects of piperine in mice. The analgesic and anticonvulsant effects of piperine were studied in mice using acetic acid-induced writhi...

This study shows the effects of spices, and their phenolic and flavonoid compounds, on prostate cell lines (PNT1A, 22RV1 and PC3). The results of an MTT assay on extracts from eight spices revealed the strongest inhibitory effects were from black pepper and caraway seed extracts. The strongest inhibitory effect on prostatic cells was observed after the application of extracts of spices in conce...

Citation: Hedawoo GB, Mishra SA and Maggirwar RC (2014) Incidence of mycoflora associated with some spices, International Journal of Life Sciences, 2 (1): 44-48. The spices including black pepper, fennel and cumin are extensively utilized by majority of world’s polulation in response to multifold used as food, medicine, flavouring and colouring agent. In storage, seed borne contaminants not onl...

Background: The impact of diseases such as Phytophthora foot rot and the replacement of unproductive cultivars by high yielding ones has brought about the disappearance of varieties in Piper species, like any other crop. Black pepper (King of spices), is a major spice crop consumed throughout the world. It is widely cultivated across various parts of the world apart from India. The different cu...