BACKGROUND Free radicals have been implicated in the pathogenesis of diverse metabolic disorders including cancer. Therefore, fighting against free radicals has become an important strategy in the prevention or treatment of such diseases, in addition to direct or indirect anticancer chemotherapy. Sarcocephalus pobeguinii has been used traditionally to treat various diseases in which excess prod...

background and objectives:hormozgan province is located in the south of iran, bordering waters of the persian gulf and oman sea. due to the antioxidant potential of plants which might be responsible for their medicinal properties, the antioxidant properties of four medicinal plants of the region were evaluated. methods: the antioxidant properties of chrozophora obliqua, daphne mucronata, salvia...

the current study highlights the in vitro antioxidant and antitumor activity of the previously-synthesized hydrazone derivatives against various free radicals and human cancer cell lines, respectively. the anticancer efficacies of the compound were tested by measuring cytotoxicity in cancer cell lines hela, a549, and non-cancerous nl20 cells. compounds possessing electron-donor methoxy and meth...

Extracts from five indigenous Palestinian medicinal plants including Rosmarinus officinalis, Pisidium guajava, Punica granatum peel, grape seeds and Teucrium polium were investigated for antimicrobial and free radical scavenging activities against eight microorganisms, using well diffusion method. The microorganisms included six bacterial isolates (i.e. Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, ...

Leucas linifolia belongs to the family Lamiaceae and is a well know traditional medicinal plant in India. It is an herbaceous annual weed. In ayurveda, it is used for the treatment of cough, cold, fever, loss of appetite, skin disease, head ache, jaundice, Snake bite and scorpion sting. It has shown hepato protective activity against dgalactosamine and CCl4 induced hepatotoxicity in rats. Metha...

costus speciosus (koen) j.e. sm. plant and its extracts are used for treatment of fever, snake bites, jaundice, and as a purgative, astringent and antibacterial agent. in the present study, an attempt has been made to evaluate in vitro antioxidant activity of different extracts of this plant by dpph radical scavenging activity, total antioxidant capacity, nitric oxide scavenging activity, ion c...

BACKGROUND Aging is an inevitable process for all living organisms. During this process reactive oxygen species generation is increased which leads to the activation of hyaluronidase, collagenase and elastase, which can further contribute to skin aging. Four southern African medicinal plants; Clerodendrum glabrum, Schotia brachypetala, Psychotria capensis and Peltophorum africanum, were investi...

peperomia pellucida leaf extract was characterized for its anticancer, antimicrobial, antioxidant activities, and chemical compositions. anticancer activity of p. pellucida leaf extract was determined through colorimetric mtt (tetrazolium) assay against human breast adenocarcinoma (mcf-7) cell line and the antimicrobial property of the plant extract was revealed by using two-fold broth micro-di...

The free radical scavenging potential of the plant Alocasia indica(Linn.) was studied by using different antioxidant models of screening like scavenging of 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl radical, nitric oxide radical, superoxide anion radical, hydroxyl radical, iron chelating activity, total antioxidant capacity, non-enzymatic glycosylation of haemoglobin, rapid screening for antioxidant compou...