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In folk medicine, especially in developing countries, several plant species are employed for the treatment of snakebites that lack prompt access to serum therapy. Andrographis serpyllifolia (Vahl), belonging to Acanthaceae, has been recorded in ethnobotanical archives as a plant possessing potent anti-ophidic activity for snake bites. The present study emphasis to investigate the phytochemical profile and anti-oxidant properties of various plant extracts of A. serpyllifolia. To carry out this work, various cold plant extracts were prepared from shade dried leaves and used. During qualitative analysis, all the plant extracts showed positive results for all phytocompounds. Various quantitative assays exhibited that all plant extracts were having significant level of secondary metabolites with values ranging from 1148 to 286 mg GAE/g for phenol, 1262 to 976 mg LN/g for terpenoids, 172 to 106 mg RE/g for flavonoids and 21.5 to 3.6 mg TA/g for tannins. All the plant extracts tested had higher DPPH, ABTS scavenging activity, and metal chelating ability. The free radical scavenging activity of plant extracts were found to...
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Herbal medicine has been widely accepted as a promising approach for the treatment of various diseases with lower cost and minimized toxicity. Bioactive constituents isolated from the herbal source are equipped with synthetic drugs. The potency of any herbal medication is contingent on the delivery of the effectual level of the therapeutically active constituent. The integration of a novel drug delivery system in a traditional system of medicine enriches the potentiality of herbal drugs. Several plant extracts and phytoconstituents, despite having excellent bio-activity in-vitro demonstrate less or no in-vivo actions due to their poor lipid solubility or improper molecular size or both, resulting in poor absorption and poor bioavailability. Nan technological systems have been developed for use as various types of carrier systems to improve the delivery of bioactive compounds and thus, obtain a greater bioavailability. Phytosome technology is one such novel approach that enabled in making phytoconstituents more bioavailable. In this review, a comprehensive discussion with respect to the methods and characterization of nanophytosomes of herbal preparations is...
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Nitrofurantoin is a broad-spectrum bactericidal antibiotic that affects both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. Nitrofurantoin exhibits bacteriostatic or bactericidal effects by inhibiting the synthesis of DNA, RNA, protein, and cell wall synthesis. Nanocrystals of NFT were prepared by a cold high-pressure homogenization technique. To improve the dissolution rate, the drug was formulated in a nanocrystal by using an emulsion diffusion method, high-pressure homo-genization or sonication. NFT was dispersed in aqueous surfactant solution containing poloxamer 188, PVPK 30, and HPMC E3 under continuous stirring. Poloxamer 188 was used as a surfactant for the preparation of the NCs. Formulation NC9B3 has a mean particle size 231 ± 9 nm with polydispersity index 0.09 ± 0.02, which indicates a very narrow particle size distribution. % Entrapment efficiency was 98.3 ± 0.7 slow drug release profile indicates the homogeneous dispersion of NFT in the lipid matrix. NCs have crystalline nature with rough surfaces, which has been confirmed using SEM analysis. XRPD spectra show the reduction in the crystalline behavior of the drug and the...
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Resistance to antimicrobials by pathogenic bacteria is a global menace. An attractive pathway to resolve this problem of resistance may be achieved by targeting the bacterial quorum sensing (QS) process. Fighting bacterial infections by interfering with their command language and disrupting virulence expression could serve as a viable alternative. One of the current strategies is to attenuate virulence gene expression of agr quorum sensing system of some Gram-positive bacteria through inhibition of AgrA_ P2/P3 interaction. Tertiary structures of AgrA proteins of some pathogenic bacteria like Listeria monocytogenes, Chlamydia trachomatis, Enterococcus faecalis, Streptococcus pyogenes and Macrococcus canis showing antimicrobial resistance are not yet available in structural databases like PDB. These proteins play a key role in AgrA quorum sensing. 3D structures of these proteins are essential to determine most of their functions, and for the development of agents that can be explored as therapeutic agents. In order to derive structures of these AgrA proteins, homology modeling approach was employed. The modeled proteins were validated by several methods, and the physico-chemical...
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Herbal medicine nowadays offers several options to modify the progress and symptoms of medicines. There has been a new trend in the preparation and marketing of drugs based on medicinal plants and their scientific and commercial significance. These plant-derived products are carefully standardized and their efficacy and safety for a specific application have been demonstrated. The objective of this work is to prepare different crude extracts from the leaves of a medicinal plant, Bacopa monnieri through the maceration method and determine their total phenolics, flavonoids and other components and also the antioxidant activity by established methods. The Bacopa monnieri leaves were collected from East Kolkata Wetland, India. The different crude extracts were prepared by using different solvents of different polarities. The total phenolic contents were determined by using the UV visible spectroscopy method. The content of the total phenolic of different leaves crude extracts was in the range of 17.43 mg/g-46.24 mg/g of dry crude extracts. The antioxidant activity was assessed by conventional a-diphenyl-b-s-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) methods. The highest antioxidant...
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