June 2015

A review on gall karkatshringi

Karkatasringi (Pistacia integerrima) is a well known medicinal plant which belongs to the family of Anacardiaceae. The plant is indigenous to India and is found in the outer ranges of the North-Western Himalayas at an altitude of 500 to 2500 m. The different parts of the plant like leaf, bark, root and galls are reported to contain the secondary metabolites. Among them, the galls are more used in folk medicines. They...

Author(s): Kaur Barinder and Singh Saurabh

June 2015

Antimicrobial activity and synergistic effects of an ethyl acetate fraction from methanol extract of Myracrodruon urundeuva bark

This study aimed to investigate the antimicrobial action of different methanolic extract fractions from Myracrodruon urundeuva (Anacardiaceae) bark and to evaluate the interaction between the most active fraction and some commercial antibiotics. After methanolic extraction, the extract obtained was submitted to liquid/liquid fractionation using cyclohexane, ethyl acetate, n-butanol and water. All fractions showed...

Author(s): Jannyson José Braz Jandú, Luís Cláudio Nascimento da Silva, Márcia Vanusa da Silva and Maria Tereza dos Santos Correia