Open wound ulcer treatment remains a great challenge in care management especially involving multi drug resistant (MDR) pathogen. Currently, lack of effectiveness commercially available dressing material is one the primary factors delaying healing. Therefore, transformation plain Chitosan (Cs) to antibacterial polymer nanocomposite with embedment Quercetin-ZnO/CuO biocide through green synthesi...

A large number of medicinal plants are used as alternate medicine for diseases of man and other animals since most of them are without side effects when compared with synthetic drugs. Identification of the chemical nature of phytochemical compounds present in the medicinal plants will provide some information on the different functional groups responsible for their medicinal properties. While s...

The objective of the study is to explore the anticancer activity of di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) isolated from Calotropis gigantea flower against Ehrlich ascites carcinoma cells (EAC) in Swiss albino mice. The activity of DEHP was evaluated at doses of 10, 20 and 40 mg kg-1 body mass applied intraperitoneally. DEHP showed a significant decrease in viable cell count (p < 0.05), mass gain (...