Current Issue : January-March Volume : 2016 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 4 Articles
Free radicals or other reactive oxygen species produced during aerobic metabolism in the body. These oxidative species react with cell components such as lipids, proteins, mitochondria and DNA, can cause oxidative stress and contribute to more than one hundreds of diseases in humans including atherosclerosis, arthritis, ischemia, abnormal neurogenesis and neuronal degradation, gastritis, aging, liver diseases, cancer and AIDS. Antioxidants, both exogenous and endogenous help to neutralise the effect of free radicals via prevention of the free radical formation by scavenging free radical scavengers, preventing the radical chain reaction of oxidation and inhibiting the oxidation process. Antioxidant may be synthetic and natural. But some synthetic antioxidants have been reported unsafe for human health. Therefore, the demand of natural antioxidant is increasing due to their wide application and therapeutic efficacy with minimal side effects. The present review collected the information of potential antioxidant plants with emphasis their botanical source, common name and other biological activities, which would be helpful to develop new antioxidant herbal formulations....
Papaya (Carica papaya L.) belongs to the family caricaceae and is one of the most well researched plants. It is used widely due to its medicinal properties. The present study was carried out to find out the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to ethanolic extract of leaves and seeds of Carica papaya. By using alamar blue dye assay and in-vitro bioassay based on inactivation of viability by a procedure similar to neutralization test were used to study the inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis which shows anti-tb activity against clinical strains of sensitive and drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (pyrazinamide, streptomycin, ciprofloxacin). The present results are possibly one of the first few investigations showing a clear indication of the potent anti-tubercular effect of carica papaya....
Acacia auriculiformis A. Cunn. ex. Benth is a valuable, vigorously growing, evergreen tree, belonging to family Mimosaceae. Its natural distribution extends through Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. It has been introduced into many other countries including India. Phytoconstituents isolated from various parts of the plant include carbohydrates, tannins, anthocyanidins, flavonoids and some unique saponins. The tree is used as a folk medicine in Australia and Nigeria to treat aches, sore eyes, rheumatism, malaria, skin diseases like itching, allergy and rashes. It has been reported to possess antimalarial, spermicidal, antioxidant, antimicrobial, cestocidal, central nervous system depressant, hepatoprotective, anti diabetic, wound healing, antimutagenic and chemopreventive activities. The description, traditional uses, phytoconstituents and biological activities of the plant have been given in this review....
Wound healing possesses still great challenge for the medical community including the pharmaceutical industry. Due to the complexity involved in the pathophysiology of wound healing and wound management, coming up with efficient strategy to deal with is somewhat a test. Traditional medicines have been used by humans since ages and taking the wide spread of medicinal plants available for the same, they are valuable source even to deal with wound management. Therefore, this review focuses on brief about wound management and exhaustive literature coverage to deal with the same. Pharmaceutical industry should use these medicinal plants to come up with an effective strategy to deal the still daunting task of wound management...
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