background: woodfordia fruticosa is used traditionally as antidysenteric compound for fodder animals. stem and flower extracts are previously flourished for their antibacterial activity. leaves are also equally important, which are preliminary screened for their bioactive components in present study. objective: evaluation of antibacterial activity of leaves of w. fruticosa and detection of thei...

Plant-derived natural products are known to have cancer chemo-preventive and chemo-therapeutic properties. Plant extracts or their active constituents are used as folk medicine in traditional therapies by 80% of the world population. The aim of the present study was to determine the anti-proliferative potential of Fumaria vaillantii extracts on three different cancer cell lines including malign...

With the procedure which is described, brain tissue is separated into six fractions, the sum of whose weights equals the dry weight of the tissue. Three of these primary fractions are further separated into subfractions. Recovery is quantitative at each step. The procedure, as applied to rat brain, gave consistent results; duplicate analyses of the two halves of brains, divided as equally as po...

The ethanolic extract and its chloroform soluble and chloroform insoluble fractions of the roots of Baliospermum montanum were investigated in albino rats to evaluate the analgesic activity. Tailo - flick animal model was employed to test analgesic activity and compaired with a standard drug, Diclofenac sodium. The results indicate that the ethanolic extract and its chloroform soluble fraction ...

Leaves and roots are used as hepatic tonic rejuvenates hair, cirrhosis, ear aches, hepatitis, headache and enlarged spleen. Studies on the hepatoprotective activity on methanolic extract and sub fractions of leaves and the chloroform extract and sub fractions of roots of Eclipta alba was carried out using carbon tetrachlorideinduced liver damage and Lysosomal enzymes level in wistar albino rats...

The genotoxic effect of the Austroplenckia populnea chloroform fraction from barkwood extract was tested in vivo on peripheral blood cells of Swiss mice with the comet assay (SCGE), and the clastogenic effect was investigated on peripheral blood cells of Swiss mice and bone marrow cells of Wistar rats, with the micronucleus and chromosome aberrations tests. The animals were treated by gavage wi...

When fractionating natural and standard lipid mixtures according to the most widely used method for the analysis of soil and other environmental materials, free fatty acids (FFAs) were not recovered quantitatively in the fraction expected to contain all simple lipids. Rather than being eluted from activated silicic acid adsorption chromatographic columns with chloroform, FFAs in standard lipid ...

background and objectives: angiogenesis is essential for tumor survival. inhibiting angiogenesis could be a mechanism for hindering tumor development. numerous studies have now been focused on agiogenesis inhibitors and many of such studies have targeted plant materials. in the present study, crocus pallasii subsp. haussknechtii has been evaluated for anti-angiogenesis properties. methods: anti...

Our previous studies showed the effects of aqueous and ethanol extracts of Anethum graveolens L. (dill) on female infertility. In the present study we investigated whether different fractions of this herb extract can cause infertility in rats. Female rats were divided into the control groups, the groups receiving either a low (0.5 g/kg)) or a high dose (5g/kg) of water, N-butanol, chloroform an...

We investigated the anti-inflammatory activity of Senecio salignus. This medicinal plant is often used in Mexico for the treatment of fever and rheumatism. Chloroform and methanol extracts of the plant were tested on 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate- (TPA-) induced edema in mice ears. The methanol extract of the plant inhibited edema by 36 ± 4.4% compared with the control, while the chlorof...