Volume 7, Issue 4

Ramsha Saeed, Dildar Ahmed

pp. 295–301 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.158440 · 2015

Background Carissa opaca is known for its many ethnomedicinal uses. There was a need to study its bioactivities and identify its phytochemicals. Objective The objective was to isolate and identify phytochemicals from roo…

Akram Ahmad, Muhammad Umair Khan, Bandari Deepak Kumar, Gogikar Sudhir Kumar, Stephanie Perez Rodriguez, Isha Patel

pp. 302–308 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.158438 · 2015

Objectives To assess the beliefs, attitudes and self-use of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy (AYUSH) medicines among senior pharmacy students. Methodology This was a descriptive cross-section…

Behnaz Mirshafie, Najmeh Mokhber-Dezfouli, Azadeh Manayi, Soodabeh Saeidnia, Yousef Ajani, Ahmad Reza Gohari

pp. 309–313 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.158442 · 2015

Background Zhumeria majdae (Lamiaceae) is an endemic species growing in the South parts of Iran especially Hormozgan province. The plant is so-called Mohrekhosh locally and widely used for medicinal purposes including st…

Nasrin Payghami, Shahla Jamili, Abdolhossein Rustaiyan, Soodabeh Saeidnia, Marjan Nikan, Ahmad Reza Gohari

pp. 314–321 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.167893 · 2015

Background Sargassum species (phaeophyceae) are economically important brown algae in southern parts of Iran. Sargassum is mainly harvested as a row material in alginate production industries and is a source of plant foo…

Seyed-Ebrahim Sajjadi, Maryam Jamali, Yalda Shokoohinia, Gisya Abdi, Behzad Shahbazi, Ali Fattahi

pp. 322–328 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.158437 · 2015

Background Ferulago macrocarpa is a plant used as flavoring agent and protectant in the food industry and as a folk medicinal plant in Iran with no available information on its chemical identity. Ferulago spp. showed to …

A. Mohammadi, T. Ahmadzadeh Sani, A. A. Ameri, M. Imani, E. Golmakani, H. Kamali

pp. 329–334 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.158441 · 2015

Background The genus Artemisia belonging to the Compositae (Asteraceae) family and many traditional uses from the Artemisia species were reported. Artemisia absinthium is one of the species in this genus and commonly use…

Jihan M. Badr

pp. 335–340 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.158436 · 2015

Background Phragmanthera austroarabica A.G. Mill. and J. A. Nyberg is a semi parasitic plant belonging to family Loranthaceae. It was collected from Saudi Arabia. It is widely used in folk medicine among the kingdom in t…

Munirah Haron, Sabariah Ismail

pp. 341–349 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.159580 · 2015

Background Glucuronidation catalyzed by uridine 5’-diphospho-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) is a major phase II drug metabolism reaction which facilitates drug elimination. Inhibition of UGT activity can cause drug-drug i…

Devanand Gupta, Amit Mathur, Gaurav I. Patil, Harshad K. Tippanawar, Ankita Jain, Namita Jaggi, Rajendra Kumar Gupta, Purnima Garg

pp. 350–354 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.157810 · 2015

Aim Health professionals especially the dental professional are the frequent targets of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can be of some help in managing these MSD especially i…

G. M. Gururaja, Deepak Mundkinajeddu, Shekhar M. Dethe, Gopala K. Sangli, K. Abhilash, Amit Agarwal

pp. 355–362 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.159578 · 2015

Background In the earlier studies, methanolic extract of Mangifera indica L leaf was exhibited hypocholesterol activity. However, the bioactive compounds responsible for the same are not reported so far. Objective To iso…

Aliyu M. Musa, Nasir Tajuddeen, Abdullahi Y. Idris, Abdurahman Y. Rafindadi, Musa I. Abdullahi, Abubakar B. Aliyu, Mikhail S. Abdullahi, Mohammed A. Ibrahim

pp. 363–366 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.159572 · 2015

Background Medicinal plants remain one of the largest reservoirs of new bioactive compounds. In this study, a new prenylated benzo-lactone (4, 6-dihydroxy-5-methoxy-3-(1, 2, 3, 4, 5-pentahydroxypentyl)-2-benzofuran-1(3H)…

Harquin Simplice Foyet, David Emery Tsala, Zogo Essono Bodo J.C, Azanfack Name Carine, Lissia Toussoumna Heroyne, Eyong Kenneth Oben

pp. 367–377 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.159569 · 2015

Background Vitellaria paradoxa is a traditional medicinal plant of Cameroon. Several studies on this plant have focused on the cosmetic profile of its fruits. The present study focuses on the anti-inflammatory potency of…

S. Sham Bhat, K. Sundeep Hegde, Sharath Chandrashekhar, S. N. Rao, Shyamjith Manikkoth

pp. 378–392 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.159577 · 2015

Background To discover a new agent which possesses dual property of analgesic and antimicrobial activity, thereby reducing the burden of polypharmacy. Phyllanthus amarus was screened for its analgesic and antimicrobial a…

Viktor Alexandrovich Bybin, Daevard Iosifovich Stom

pp. 393–396 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.159581 · 2015

Now, in the global community there is enough hard recommendation to replace the vertebrate test animals into simpler organisms at the development, testing, and evaluation of the quality pharmaceuticals. The feature of pl…

Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula, Ahed Jumah Mahmoud Al-Khatib, Asim Ahmed Elnour, Naama M. S. Al Kalbani, Abdulla Shehab

pp. 397–400 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.167894 · 2015

Ammi visnaga is a widely distributed Ancient Egyptian medicinal plant used for treatment of several diseases including urolithiasis (kidney stones). The active chemical constituents’ khellin and visnagin obtained from th…