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Flavonoids have been reported to have many pharmacological activities, antimicrobial, antioxidant, cytotoxic, chemoprevention activities along with strong antiproliferative effects. The fruits of Garcinia lancaefolia Roxb., family Cluseaceae , a plant endemic to Assam has been used in locally to treat many diseases for which it was selected for investigationg its antimicrobial properties. No scientific validation has been made so far on its phytochemical content and the antibacterial activity for which the methanolic and water extract of plant parts were investigated by Agar Well Diffusion method. Furthermore, our phytochemical studies indicated that methanolic extract of Garcinia lancaefolia flowers and fruits contains flavonoids, tannins, reducing sugar, steroid terpene and cardiac glycosides. The total phenolic and flavonoids content studies were quantified for all the plant parts. Antibacterial activities of the crude extract were screened against wound infection causing 5 human pathogens. The most susceptible bacteria were S. aureus, followed by beta hemolytic Streptococcus pyogens, while the most resistant bacteria were E. coli, followed by Bacillus subtilis. From the screening experiment, the crude...
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa, is one among the few drug resistant organisms causing Urinary Tract Infection. Most strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are significantly more resistant, even in the absence of R plasmids, to many antimicrobial agents, including β-lactams, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and fluoroquinolones, than most other gram-negative rods. This broad-range resistance has so far been assumed to be mainly due to the low permeability of the P. aeruginosa outer membrane. Mex-proteins are the multidrug exporter proteins that are significant in drug ejection, which is the main reason for drug resistance. This limits the therapeutic options. Inhibition of multi drug resistant efflux pumps can restore the activities of antimicrobial agents that are substrates for these proteins. Hence efforts are now taken to screen few medicinal plants, which are both economic and less toxic. Among the several plants screened, we have chosen the acetone extract of Elephantopus scaber from which we purified a new terpenoid for our study. Its structure was generated using CHEMSKETCH software. The novel terpenoid was evaluated as potent efflux inhibitor. In...
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A new series of flurobenzothiazole incorporated 1, 3, 4 – thiadiazole compounds have been synthesized. The structure of the synthesized compounds was confirmed by UV, IR, 1H NMR, Mass spectral analysis and evaluated for their antimicrobial activity against Proteus vulgaris NCTC 4635, Micrococcus leutus NL98, Aspergillus flavus ATCC 46646by disc diffusion method. The compounds SH8 and SH11 were also evaluated for the anti-inflammatory activity by carrageenan-induced paw oedema method. The synthesized compounds (SH6 to SH11) showed good antimicrobial activity. However the antimicrobial activity of the synthesized compounds against the tested organisms was found to be less than that of respective standard drugs used at tested dose level. The anti-inflammatory activity confirmed that the test compound SH11 showed superior activity in the inhibition of oedema than SH8. However, both the test compounds were found to be less active than the standard drug...
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Posted by admin on May 1, 2012 in |
Due to the outbreak of infectious diseases caused by different pathogenic bacteria and the development of antibiotic resistance, the pharmaceutical companies and the researchers are now searching for new unconventional antibacterial agents. Nanotechnology represents a modern and innovative approach to develop new formulations based on metallic nanoparticles with antimicrobial properties. The potential bioactivity of chemically fabricated silver nanoparticles has been extensively studied. However, the antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles individually or in combination with different antibiotics has not been demonstrated. In the present investigations, the effect of silver nanoparticles on the antibacterial activity of different antibiotics was evaluated against selected human bacterial pathogens such as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus epidermis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Bacillus cereus by disc diffusion method.In the presence of sub – inhibitory concentration of silver nanoparticles (100µL/disc), the antibacterial activities of all antibiotics are increased from 1 mm to 10 mm. The maximum fold increase was noticed for vancomycin against Pseudomonas aeruginosa (66.67%), Escherichia coli (62.50%), and Staphylococcus aureus (46%) followed by rifampicin against Bacillus...
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Posted by admin on Apr 1, 2012 in |
Metal nanoparticles have been using as an ingredients in the preparation of complementary medicines to cure different diseases is an age old medicinal practices. The plant based Ayurvedic preparations are preferred by 80% of the world population and WHO is encouraging the green medicine due to its less side effects. Hence an attempt has been made to screen this important medicinal plant for secondary metabolites biogenesis of silver nanoparticles (SNPs) and their antimicrobial efficacy. The stem, roots, stembark and leaves were selected for synthesis of SNPs. The SNPs formation was confirmed with the help of UV-VIS spectroscopy and characterized by AFM. The phytosynthesized SNPs were tested for antibacterial and antifungal activities using paper disc diffusion method. The results indicate that the selected plant revealed that it is source for different secondary metabolites like anthocyanins, emodins, triterpenoids, tannins, saponins, luecoanthocyanins, reducing sugars, flavonoids, lignins, anthroquniones, phenols and glycosides. But steroids, coumarins, fatty acids and alkaloids are absent. The SNPs are having more anti microbial efficacy than that of the plant...
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