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Phyla nodiflora Linn., Synonym- Lippia nodiflora Rich also known as Jala-pippali is an important herb which can be used medicinally.The aim of the present study is to fractionate several chemical constituents in Phyla nodiflora. Chromatography was used for designing of multi component solvent system for different extracts where, for methanolic extract Hexane: Toluene: Ethyl acetate (2: 1.5: 0.5); for chloroform and petroleum ether Hexane: Ethyl acetate (3:1) were selected. Five different phenolic components were extracted and comparison was done through HPTLC and it was found that in phenolic BuOH extract maximum active constituents were separated....
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The present study was aimed to investigate phytochemicals present in the whole plant extract of Dendrophthoe falcata and development of new solvent system for thin layer chromatography of ethanolic (whole plant) extract of medicinal plant Dendrophthoe falcata. The extract showed presence of Carbohydrates, Sterols, Glycosides, Flavonoids and Phenolic compounds. For TLC, new solvent system developed, best result was given by solvent system- Toluene: Ethyle acetate: Formic acid in the ratio of 2.5:1:1. HPTLC report of the extract in same solvent system- Toluene: Ethyle acetate: Formic acid in the ratio of 2.5:1:1 showed the presence of eleven active chemical...
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Condensation of o-phenylene diamine with chloro acetic acid gave 2-chloromethyl benzimdazole, which undergoes halide replacement with phenylhydrazines to give the corresponding NN’ disubstituted hydrazines. The synthesized compounds were subjected to microbiological screening and In- vitro anti-inflammatory activity....
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Cellular damage arising from free radical is one of the fundamental mechanism underlying a number of human neurodegenerative disorder like diabetes, inflammation, Alzheimer’s disease, autoimmune pathologic and digestive system disorder. Thus antioxidant plays an important role in the treatment of such disease. The present study aims at a comparative evaluation of ethyl acetate, hexane and methanol extract of Vitex leucoxylon Linn. bark for antioxidant activity. Vitex leucoxylon Linn. a medicinal plant of the verbenaceae family, used in traditional medicine for relieving headache and catarrh. HIME was 1.8964 μg/ml after 48 h of incubation. In this study, it was observed that HIME induces a concentration dependent inhibition of HT29 cells, with an IC50 value of 1.8964 μg/ml after 48 h of...
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Natural products represent a reservoir of diverse templates and are being tapped to outsource novel anticancer agents. Hemidesmus indicus R.Br.(Fam: Asclepidaceae) has been reported to be useful for the treatment of inflammation, cuts, wounds, burns, snake bite, skin and blood diseases, ulcers, immunological disorders . In the present study, the methanolic extract of the roots of Hemidesmus indicus, was investigated against human colon cancer cell line (HT29) to explore its anticancer potential. The effect of Hemidesmus indicus methanolic extract(HIME)on proliferation of HT29 cancer cell line was determined by microculture tetrazolium assay (MTT). The cells were exposed to different concentrations (100, 50 , 25, 12.5 , 6.25, 3.125 and1.5 μg/ml) of HIME or vehicle for 48 h. Cisplatin (5, 2.5 and 1.25 μg/ml) acted as positive control and vehicle (DMSO) as negative control. Following treatment, the cells were exposed to Tetrazolium dye (5mg/ml) for 4 h. The formation of the purple coloured formazan complex was dissolved by adding DMSO (100 μl) and read at 490 nm using ELISA microtiter plate...
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