Purpose: Various parts of Moringa oleifera Lam. (Moringaceae) are used in traditional systems medicine. This study investigates the antimicrobial activity crude aqueous extract and polyphenol enriched fractions M. leaves at flowering stage against microbial strains causing oral wound infections. Methods: Polyphenol (hydroalcoholic extract, methanol fresh dry decoction) were prepared using four ...

Nadeem M., Abdullah M., Hussain I., Inayat S., Javid A., Zahoor Y. (2013): Antioxidant potential of Moringa oleifera leaf extract for the stabilisation of butter at refrigeration temperature. Czech J. Food Sci., 31: 332–339. The antioxidant potential of a leaf extract of Moringa oleifera Lam. (Moringaceae) – LEMO was studied for the stabilisation of butter at refrigeration temperature. LEMO was...

Glucosinolates (GLs) are natural compounds present in species of the order Brassicales and precursors of bioactive isothiocyanates (ITCs). In the recent years, they have been studied mainly for their chemopreventive as well as novel chemotherapeutics properties. Among them 4-(α-L-rhamnosyloxy)benzyl glucosinolate (glucomoringin; GMG), purified from seeds of Moringa oleifera Lam., a plant belong...

Abstract Moringa oleifera is an arboreal plant belonging to the family Moringaceae distributed in tropical areas and has gained enormous attention last decades. This research a review on association between aqueous extracts of M. leaves diabetes mellitus understanding its pharmacological functions underlying mechanisms. The refinement demonstrated pharmaceutical potential phytochemicals, given ...

Moringa oleifera (Moringaceae) which grows in the tropical and subtropical regions of world, has long unani system medicine with ayurvedic history. The seeds are known to possess high medicinal properties. This study aimed determine antioxidant activity M. seeds, extracted different solvents (methanol, ethyl acetate n-hexane) using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay. research was carrie...

The antibacterial activity of leaf juice and extracts of Moringa oleifera Lam., belonging to the family Moringaceae, was determined in vitro, using disc diffusion and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) determination method against human pathogenic bacteria. The fresh leaf juice (10 μl disc-1), powder from fresh leaf juice, cold water extract of fresh leaf, each of 1175 μg disc-1, displayed ...

BACKGROUND Moringa oleifera belongs to plant family, Moringaceae and popularly called "wonderful tree", for it is used traditionally to cure many diseases including cancer in Africa and Asia, however, there is limited knowledge on cytotoxic activity of Moringa oleifera seeds on MCF7 breast cancer cell. The present study evaluated antiproliferative effect on MCF7 of the seed. MATERIALS AND MET...

Moringa oleifera Lam (Moringaceae) is a highly valued plant, distributed in many countries of the tropics and subtropics. It has an impressive range of medicinal uses with high nutritional value. Different parts of this plant contain a profile of important minerals, and are a good source of protein, vitamins, beta-carotene, amino acids and various phenolics. The Moringa plant provides a rich an...

Heavy metals are hazardous substances that cause serious health risk to ecosystem and organisms due to their high toxicity conferred by nature of their environmental persistence. Heavy metals have been defined based on their specific density (of metals greater than 4 or 5 g/liter), having atomic weight between 63.546 and 200.590 (Sagakachi, Makajima & Atoleiye et al). Unlike organic pollutants,...