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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
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Benedito Junior Lima de Medeiros, Kelém dos Santos Costa, Jeane Francisca Alves Ribeiro, José Otavio Carrera Silva, Wagner Luiz Ramos Barbosa, José Carlos Tavares Carvalho
pp. 79–84 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.81954 · 2011
Background Folk medicine uses preparations of Arrabidaea chica (pariri) leaves to treat various liver pathologies. We evaluated the effects of the hydroethanolic extract of these leaves (CHEE) on an in vivo model of live…
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Ian E. Cock, Liisa Kukkonen
pp. 85–94 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.81955 · 2011
Background Scaevola spinescens is an endemic Australian native plant with a history of use as a medicinal agent by indigenous Australians. Yet the medicinal bioactivities of this plant are poorly studied. Materials and M…
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Richard M. Mariita, John A. Orodho, Paul O. Okemo, Claude Kirimuhuzya, Joseph N. Otieno, Joseph J. Magadula
pp. 95–99 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.81956 · 2011
Background The emergence of resistance to antimicrobials by pathogens has reached crisis levels, calling for identification of alternative means to combat diseases. Objective To determine antimicrobial activity of crude …
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Siu Kuin Wong, Yau Yan Lim, Noor Rain Abdullah, Fariza Juliana Nordin
pp. 100–106 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.81957 · 2011
Background The anticancer properties of Apocynaceae species are well known in barks and roots but less so in leaves. Materials and Methods In this study, leaf extracts of 10 Apocynaceae species were assessed for antiprol…
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Ali M. El-Halawany, Riham Salah El Dine, Mi Hwa Chung, Tsutomu Nishihara, Masao Hattori
pp. 107–113 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.81958 · 2011
Background There is a growing demand for the discovery of new phytoestrogens to be used as a safe and effective hormonal replacement therapy. Materials and Methods The methanol extracts of 40 plants from the Egyptian and…
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Ahmed M. A. Abd El-Mawla, Husam Eldien H. Osman
pp. 114–121 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.81959 · 2011
Background Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) cause gastrointestinal damage both in the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract, in addition to their undesirable side effects on the pancreas. Meloxicam like al…
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Shrinivas G. Bhope, Dheeraj H. Nagore, Vinod V. Kuber, Pankaj K. Gupta, Manohar J. Patil
pp. 122–129 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.81960 · 2011
Introduction Ayurvedic and herbal medicinal products contain a combination of botanicals; each of these contains a number of chemical compounds that may give the anticipated activity in combination. Therefore, it is very…
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George A. Koffuor, Patrick Amoateng, Terrick A. Andey
pp. 130–134 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.81961 · 2011
Aim The effect of Solanum torvum (Fam: Solanaceae) on delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) response, hemagglutinating antibody (HA) titer, white blood cells (WBC), red blood cells (RBC) and hemoglobin concentration was in…
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Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat, Alireza Sanei Dehkordi, Mahnaz Khanavi, Mohammad Reza Abai, Fatemeh Mohtarami, Hassan Vatandoost
pp. 135–139 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.81962 · 2011
Background Using botanical insecticides as an alternative biocontrol technique for vector control is considered by some scientists. Materials and Methods Chemical composition of the essential oil was analyzed using gas c…
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Shambaditya Goswami, Awanish Pandey, Poonam Tripathi, Asheesh Singh, Amrita Rai
pp. 140–142 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.81963 · 2011
Ethanolic extracts of Hedychium spichatum rhizomes and Zingiber zerumbet rhizomes were taken for in vitro comparative studies on the anthelmintic activity against Pheritima posthuma. Different concentrations (25, 50, 100…
SHORT COMMUNICATION
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Gottumukkala Venkateswara Rao, T. Mukhopadhyay, T. Annamalai, N. Radhakrishnan, M. R. Sahoo
pp. 143–145 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.81964 · 2011
Bioassay-guided isolation of methanolic extract of the leaves of Origanum vulgare Linn., yielded two protocatechuic acid ester derivatives, origanol A (1) and origanol B (2) along with ursolic acid (3), oleanolic acid (4…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
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Roopesh Jain, Archana Tiwari
pp. 146–146 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.81965 · 2011
Letter to the editor
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Sanjib Bhattacharya
pp. 147–148 · DOI: 10.4103/0974-8490.81966 · 2011