Background: Senna alata belongs to the family, Fabaceae, which is widely distributed in humid and tropical regions of world. It has been ethnobotanically used management diabetes, asthma, typhoid, malaria, worm infestation (ringworms, tinea infections), scabies, skin dermatitis such as eczema, blotch, herpes. Hence, it important quantify pharmacological properties plant, especially infestations...

Chen AM , Farwell DG , Luu Q , Donald PJ , Perks J , Purdy J . [20] Evaluation of the planning target volume in the treatment of head and neck cancer with intensity-modulated radiotherapy: What is the appropriate expansion margin in the setting of daily image guidance? Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2011 ; 81 : 943 – 9 . Van Herk M , Remeijer P , Rasch C , Lebesque JV . The [21] probability of co...

Purpose: Glioblastoma is a highly malignant, invariably fatal brain tumor for which effective pharmacotherapy remains an unmet medical need. Experimental Design: Screening of a compound library of 160 synthetic and natural toxic substances identified the antihelmintic niclosamide as a previously unrecognized candidate for clinical development. Considering the cellular and interindividual hetero...

Ethnobotanical surveys indicated that in the traditional medicines worldwide, several Juniperus species are utilized as antihelmintic, diuretic, stimulant, antiseptic, carminative, stomachic, antirheumatic, antifungal, and for wound healing. In the present study, essential oils obtained from heartwood samples of Juniperus virginiana L., Juniperus occidentalis Hook. and Juniperus ashei J. Buchho...

Lichens are symbiotic associations of fungi with microalgae and/or cyanobacteria. Lichens belonging to the Parmeliaceae family comprise 2700 species of lichens, including the Parmotrema genus which is composed of 300 species. The metabolites of this genus include depsides, depsidones, phenolics, polysaccharides, lipids, diphenylethers and dibenzofurans, which are responsible for the biological ...

Ferula assa-foetida L. is distributed throughout central Asia and Mediterranean area and grows wildly in Iran and Afghanistan. Asafoetida is an oleo-gum-resin that is the exudates of the roots of Ferula assa-foetida and some other Ferula species. In Iranian traditional medicine, asafoetida is considered to be sedative, analgesic, carminative, antispasmodic, diuretic, antihelmintic, emmenagogue ...

The effects of the antihelmintic, ivermectin, were investigated in recombinantly expressed human alpha(1) homomeric and alpha(1)beta heteromeric glycine receptors (GlyRs). At low (0.03 microm) concentrations ivermectin potentiated the response to sub-saturating glycine concentrations, and at higher (> or =0.03 microm) concentrations it irreversibly activated both alpha(1) homomeric and alpha(1)...

Medicinal plants belongs to the oldest known health care products that have been used by mankind all over the world in the form of folklore medicines or traditional medicines or ethno medicines. The use of herbal drugs, extracts and their remedies have significantly increased throughout the world and the ‘green revolution’ in terms of herbal medicines has now achieved astonishing popularity. Th...

Clitoria ternatea L. var. pilosula Wall. from ancient times has a place in the heart of Hindus due to its sacred value for the lord Shiva. This plant have dual significance firstly, they are promising future food secondly, these medicinal plants can have some active constituents for future pharmaceutical study. They are used in the treatment of a number of ailments including body-aches, infecti...

Fruits of Embelia drupacea known locally as Ambat are traditionally employed as laxative, antiseptic and antihelmintic and could be use as substitute for Ayurvedic drug ‘Vidanga’ Embelia ribes Burm F. ‘Vidanga’ contains as many as 35 bioactive compounds of which Embelin is most important one. Quntitation of embelin from fruits of E. drupacea also belonging to family Myrsinaceae by development a...