Volume 14, Issue 2

Jinwoo Kim, Enoch John Rusford, Gagan Tiwana, Sean Robert Alcorn, Ian Edwin Cock, Matthew James Cheesman

pp. 48–57 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2024.2.9 · 2024

Background: Terminalia ferdinandiana Exell. fruit have been used by the First Australians as a nutritious food and as a medicine for thousands of years. The antibacterial properties of T. ferdinandiana fruit extracts are…

Haokang Xu, Ian Edwin Cock

pp. 58–69 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2024.2.10 · 2024

Background:Terminalia ferdinandiana Exell. is an endemic Australian plant with a high anti-oxidant capacity. Liquid solvent extractions of T. ferdinandiana leaves are strong inhibitors of the growth of numerous bacterial…

Lindiwe Nomathemba Mpala, Getmore Rumbudzai Chikowe, Ian Edwin Cock

pp. 70–78 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2024.2.11 · 2024

Introduction: Podocarpus latifolius (Thunb.) R.Br. ex Mirb. is a large tree that is native to southern Africa. This species has been used extensively for multiple therapeutic purposes across the southern part of the Afri…

Ian Edwin Cock, Michael Whitehouse

pp. 79–85 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2024.2.12 · 2024

Introduction: Nanotechnology is promising for the development of new effective medicines. Silver nanoparticle preparations have been particularly well studied and a range of beneficial effects have been identified. Despi…

Ian E Cock

pp. 86–87 · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2024.2.13 · 2024

In the aftermath of the height of the SARS-CoV-2 viral pandemic that resulted in considerable mortality and brought the world to a standstill for several years, epidemiologists and virologists are concerned about the nex…