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Plant derived natural products such as flavonoids, terpenes, alkaloids and polysaccharides have received considerable attention in recent years due to diverse pharmacological properties including cytotoxic and cancer chemo preventive effects. From a long period of time medicinal plants or their secondary metabolites have been directly or indirectly playing an important role in the human society to combat diseases. Oxidative stress results from an excessive production of reactive oxygen species beyond the body’s antioxidant capacity. The over production of reactive oxygen species can lead to damage to cellular biomolecules, which is implicated in the development of many diseases including cell death. The reactive oxygen species can be eliminated /deactivated by a number of antioxidants which include enzymic and non-enzymic antioxidants. The plant selected for the present study is Cucumis melo (Family: Cucurbitaceae) commonly known as Musk melon.Cucumis melo helps in increasing appetite, weight loss, urinary tract infections, constipation, acidity and ulcers. The goat liver was selected as the mammalian tissue to determine the antioxidant effect of ethanol extract in the...
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Accurate and sensitive assay methods for quantitative determination of Rutoside trihydrate (rutin), Trypsin and Bromelain in tablet formulation based on UV-spectrophometric analysis were developed and validated. This three drug combination has anti-inflammatory properties and hence is used for treatment of edema and inflammations. Rutin was analyzed directly by UV-Vis spectrophotometer at 257nm because Trypsin and Bromelain are not UV-active therefore they don’t interfere in the analysis of rutin. Trypsin and Bromelain being proteolytic enzymes, Casein was used as substrates for their analysis. Casein was standardized according to Bradford assay using Bovine serum albumin as a standard. Casein was hydrolyzed to amino acid tyrosine by both the proteolytic enzymes. Tyrosine formed was further reacted with Folin-Ciolcalteu (F-C) reagent and absorbance was recorded at 785nm. Trypsin was inhibited by specific trypsin inhibitor Nα-p-tosyl-L-lysine chloromethyl Ketone (TLCK) and specific proteolytic activity of Bromelain was analysed using casein. Bromelain was inactive towards N-a-benzoyl-DL-arginine p-nitroaniline (BApNA) therefore; BApNA was used as a specific substrate for analysis of Trypsin. BApNA was hydrolyzed to pNA by...
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The pH-sensitive microcapsules were prepared by interfacial polymerization, in which caffeine was used as a model drug and hyperbranched poly L-lysine (HBPL) and terephthaloyl chloride as wall-forming materials. The microcapsules were characterized by Malvern particle size analysis, scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transforms infrared spectrophotometry (FTIR) and UV-vis spectrophotometer. Triton X-100 was used as the emulsifier of interfacial polymerization. The effects of the emulsifier content on the particle size distribution, loading content, encapsulation efficiency and drug release property of microcapsules were discussed in detail. The release behaviors of caffeine in different phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) pH were investigated systematically. The FTIR analysis of caffeine-containing microcapsules demonstrated that caffeine was successfully encapsulated in the wall-forming materials. The resultant microcapsules had narrower particle size distribution, smoother surface, and higher drug release amount with the percentage weight of emulsifier being 1.5 wt%. The drug-release behavior of caffeine from microcapsules was evaluated as a function of pH. More than 87.1% caffeine was released into pH 7.6 PBS after 100 min, whereas only 37.0% caffeine was...
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The uses of plant medicines are very common in Asia and developing countries. Phytochemicals has been used to treat chronic as well as infectious diseases. Cardiospermum halicacabum Linn. (Sapindaceae) is an herbaceous climber, commonly found throughout India, used as vegetable as well as traditional medicine for rheumatism, lumbago and nervous diseases. Many pharmacological studies have been done with various parts of C. halicacabum plant to demonstrate its medicinal effect. The present work was aimed to isolate the active compounds from the leaf extract of C. halicacabum. The hydro alcoholic leaf extract (80% methanol + 20% distilled water) was subjected to isolation procedures for identification of active compounds. Eleven compounds were got and in vitro anti oxidant analysis were done with the isolated compounds.Compound 1 and 8 selected for structural elucidation. The NMR spectrum showed characteristic peaks of compound 1 and 8 and the active phytoconstituents were identified as Kaempferol- 3- o- α- l- rhamnoside and Apigenin – 7- o- β – d- glucuronide by structural elucidation. The isolated compounds...
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Antimicrobial effects of different extracts of lichens were evaluated in this study. Acetone extract of Heterodermia boryi have shown maximum inhibitory activity against Escherichia coli (22mm) followed by Staphylococcus aureus (21mm)and Pseudomonas fluorescenes (20 mm). Among fungi, diethyl ether extract gave desirable sensitivity pattern against Pestalotia foedans was very sensitive (21mm) followed by Paeciliomyces variotii (20mm). Most of the extracts of Sticta weigelii were found to be inactive against Fusarium oxysporum. Klebsiella pneumoniae was found to most resistant bacteria against Sticta weigelii. Among the tested microbial strains, Pseudomonas fluorescens was mostly inhibited (26 mm) by chloroform extract of Dermatocarpon vellereum. Serratia marcescens was found to be the most resistant strain against the lichen, but was effectively inhibited only by ethanolic extract of Dermatocarpon vellereum (20 mm). Hexane extract D. vellereum have shown maximum inhibitory activity against Staphylococcus aureus (23...
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