December 2007

Anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of leaves of Barringtonia racemosa

The medicinal plant of Barringtonia racemosa (lecythidaceae family) has been used widely in traditional medicine for anti-inflammation and anticancer in Malaysia. The present investigation was carried out to study of the anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of fully expanded leaf extracts of B. racemosa. Antioxidant activity was measured by using FTC,...

Author(s): Mandana Behbahani, Abdul Manaf Ali, Radzali Muse and Noorjahan Banu Mohd    

December 2007

Embriofetotoxic effect and offspring postnatal development exposed to hydroalcoholic fraction extract of Cissus sicyoides L. during wistar rats pregnancy

Cissus sicyoides L (Verbaceae) is popularly known by its antidiabetic action. The hydroalcoholic extract effect in pregnant rats and its offspring was evaluated through the following parameters: gestation duration, number of younglings for hatch, maternal weight gain, postural reflex, and day of eye’s opening and day of adult gait. The results suggest that the CS does not exert any effect on the fertility...

Author(s): E. R.  Almeida,  J. R. G. Oliveira,  F. R S Lucena,  C. V. N. S. Silva, R. P. F. Soares, J. B. Cavalcanti and G. B. L. Couto    

December 2007

Toxicological and hypoglycemic studies on the leaves of Cissampelos mucronata (Menispermaceae) on blood glucose levels of streptozocin-induced diabetic wistar rats

Preliminary phytochemical screening of the ethanol leaves of Cissampelos mucronata revealed the presence of reducing sugars, cardiac glycosides, resin, tannins, saponins, glycosides, flavonoids, glycerin and steroids. The median lethal dose (LD50) in rats is greater than 5000 mg/kg body weight intaperitoneally. The hypoglycemic effect of ethanol extract of C. mucronata was also investigated in...

Author(s): Tanko, Y. , Yaro, A.H., Isa A. I, Yerima M.  Saleh. M. I. A. and Mohammed, A.    

December 2007

Open label trial of adjuvant immunotherapy with Dzherelo, Svitanok, and Lizorm, in MDR-TB, XDR-TB and TB/HIV co-infected patients receiving anti-tuberculosis therapy under DOT

Open label trial of anti-tuberculosis therapy (ATT) combined with oral immunomodulators derived from medicinal plants, Dzherelo, Svitanok, and Lizorm, was conducted in a representative group of 14 Ukrainian patients, half of whom (7) were dually infected with HIV. Among them 9 individuals had multidrug-resistant form of TB (MDR-TB) including 2 (22%) patients who presented with extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB)....

Author(s): Nathalia D. Prihoda, Olga V. Arjanova, Lyudmila V. Yurchenko, Nina I. Sokolenko, Lyudmila A. Vihrova, Volodymyr S. Pylypchuk, Galyna A. Kutsyna    

December 2007

Plant regeneration from leaf explants of Barringtonia racemosa

A protocol for in vitro propagation from leaf explants of Barringtonia racemosa is reported. Calli were aseptically raised by placing surface sterilized leaf explants on Woody Plant Medium (WPM) supplemented with different concentrations of    2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D). On the shoot induction medium, the callus induced on the WPM medium containing 2 mg/L (w/v) KIN+0.2...

Author(s): Mandana Behbahani, Abdul Manaf Ali and Radzali Muse