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The genus Euphorbia has about 2000 members making it one of the largest ones among the flowering plants. Euphorbia helioscopia L. As the chemical composition of the essential oil from Euphorbia helioscopia developed in Egypt has not yet been explored, along these lines the present to extricate the essential oil and investigate the oil chemical composition and antimicrobial activity. Essential oil from the whole inflorescence of the flowering plant, Euphorbia helioscopia Linn. was extracted by hydrodistillation method. The chemical composition of the obtained volatile oil was investigated by GC-MS. The major components include thymol (48.36%), Caryophyllene (23.57%), carvacrol (6.70%), caffeic acid (6.48%) and caryophyllene oxide (5.58). Minor components as translongipinocarveol (2.77%) and DL-malic acid (1.9%). Screening antimicrobial activity of the isolated volatile oil against four bacteria showed that it was active only against Bacillus subtilis with an inhibition zone of 11 mm ± 0.25 and MIC value 17 mg /ml. Gentamycin was utilized as a positive antibacterial control. The data of this study might be considered as the first...
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One of the proposed groupings of the fluoroquinolones describes the excellent broad-spectrum activity forms an invaluable part of the present anti-infective armory of the clinicians. The fluoroquinolones are most significant weapons can be credited for saving more human lives than any other area of medicinal therapy. In this current research segment, the novel C-3 substituted fluoroquinolone scaffolds were designed, synthesized and elucidated by IR, H1NMR, and MS spectral data. The clinically banned drug gatifloxacin is acting as starting material used to obtain targeted compounds. The proposed scheme comprised of main cyclization by using phosphorous oxychloride, thiosemicarbazide, gatifloxacin. The former compounds were undergoing diazotization reaction followed by a coupling reaction with various tertiary amines. Further, all seven 3- substituted gatifloxacin derivatives (PGI-PGVII) were screened for antimicrobial and hypoglycemic activity. In the novel series of compounds PG III, PG IV, PG V exhibited good antimicrobial activity by inhibition of DNA gyrase enzyme whereas PG I, PG III, PG VI, PG VII were found to be the most active compounds with hypoglycemic...
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Bacterial resistance and oxidative stress are an important etiology of chronic diseases. This is the reason why new alternatives were established to overcome the incidence of some pathologies. Thus, the present study was aimed to evaluate the antibacterial activity of the extracted oil against bacteria that causes nosocomial infections in neonatal intensive care by using disc diffusion method. The antioxidant activity was evaluated using various methods (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging, reducing power assay, total antioxidant activity) and the content of total phenolic and flavonoids were determined. In the essential oil, the twenty-eight compound was identified by GC/MS analysis. The major components were: 1,8-cineol (26.76%), 1-α-pinene (8.63%), linalool (7.78%). The oil strongly reduced the DPPH radical (IC50 = 4. 4 µg/ml) and reducing of molybdate (0.53 ± 0.0027 mg Eq ascorbic acid/µg EO. The oil showed strong antibacterial activity against nosocomial bacteria tested. This study confirms the essential oil of laurus nobilis. L processes antibacterial and antioxidant properties...
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Objective: Diabetes mellitus is an interminable metabolic disorder that has highly affected human health and quality of life. Conventional agents are being applied to control this disorder along with lifestyle management. But they are not totally effective and nobody has ever been diagnosed with full recovery of diabetes. Medicinal plants have been used for greater extent for control of diabetes mellitus in various traditional system of medicine worldwide as they are of natural origin and many of them are known to be effective against diabetes. Costus igneus is known as a blazing Costus, step stepping stool or Spiral banner. In India, it is popularly known as insulin plant due to the consumption of leaves of Costus igneus helps to prevent diabetes mellitus by decreasing the blood glucose level. A comprehensive review was conducted to collect data about medicinal herbs used for the treatment of diabetes mellitus. This review deals with the study of chemical structures of plant constituents and their mechanism of action. Materials and Methods: Review is mainly...
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Green chemistry or sustainable chemistry focuses on designing products and processes that minimize the generation or use of hazardous substances. Green chemistry, though not a new area, has recently gained much importance because of increasing environmental concerns. Industries now focus on adopting processes which are mainly non- hazardous, easier to undertake, lesser energy and time consuming, using re-usable reagents, degeneration of drastic materials, and more economical. These concepts have identified and developed various technologies such as microwave, ultrasonic, UV radiation, electrochemistry, etc., as green technologies. Solvents such as water, has significant importance, being non-hazardous, easily recoverable, and lowering unnecessary wastage of energy. Other recoverable solvents such as acetone, alcohol, methanol, etc., come under green chemicals. Catalysts that promote chemical reactions, without causing hazardous effect and are recoverable are also a part of green chemistry. All the aspects of green chemistry, improving the level of research in chemistry and advance techniques make the experimental work easier to new researchers. This is a positive and harmless growth in the field of...
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